Here is the next chapter, whether you wanted to see it now or not.
And if you didn't, its your own fault for not speaking up!
Disclaimer: Hikari Hrair-rah does not own Black&White OR Yugioh.
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His whole section of the island was shrouded in a massive bank of strange black fog. As soon as Yuugioh flew into it, he lost all sense of direction. Even as a glowing sphere of light, he couldn't see what was in front of him, and as a result grazed the side of a mountain that he hadn't been heading anywhere near towards before he could check his momentum.
"This is terrible! What in the world could be causing this?" Lupine said.
"Boss, how are we supposed ta fight whatever did this if we can't even find our own villages?" Luster asked.
Both Luster and Lupine were hanging onto Yuugioh's glowing form in order to keep from getting lost in the fog. Just below, some of the villagers could barely be seen running around, panicking and blind in the darkness.
"Grrr…I'm not gonna just sit here!" Luster suddenly growled, "I ain't afraid of da dark! I'll find out what's going on!"
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't think that's a good idea," Yuugioh said.
"It's an awful idea! You'll get lost, then I'll have to go find you," Lupine agreed.
"Don't worry about it! Just keep talkin," Luster said.
"Talk? Talk about what?"
"Do I look like da god here? Tell jokes for all I care!" Luster snorted, before zipping into the fog and vanishing from sight.
"…But I don't know any jokes," Lupine said, speaking to the thin air where Luster had just been floating.
"Then count," Yuugioh told him, shivering in the freezing cold smoke, "It doesn't matter."
"I suppose so…alright: one, two, three, four…"
Lupine had gotten to three hundred and twenty-six before Luster finally reappeared.
"Well, I found out dat dis stuff is coming out of some hole dat opened up near our Temple," Luster reported, "I didn't see Laurel, but da villagers have seen her, so I think she's still okay."
"What a relief," Lupine sighed.
"Maybe…right now I don't feel so hot," Luster said, drifting downwards with a slightly dizzy expression.
"…Leader? Is it my imagination, or are you getting…dimmer?" Lupine asked as he flew over to support his dark counterpart."…It's cold," Yuugioh mumbled, shivering violently.
He was sinking downwards as well. Now he was low enough that the villagers could see the light he gave off and gathered close to it.
"Sir?" one of them ventured to ask when Yuugioh sank low enough to hit the dirt, "Sir, you don't look well at all…"
'This fog…it saps spiritual energy…' he vaguely realized.
All the humans were still alright, however. Despite being unable to see in the darkness, they were otherwise unhurt. Concentrating, Yuugioh focused on the only thing that might help him now.
The villagers watched in awe as the crimson sphere of light they knew as their god shrank in on itself and turned into a human-like shape. This, of course, meant that there was no more big ball of light to see by. Not understanding what had just happened, most of the villagers panicked and ran.
Even as a human, Yuugioh was still dizzy, but at least he wasn't freezing to metaphysical death anymore. He would have fallen on his face if someone hadn't caught his arm and helped him to stand up.
It was the same villager that had just been asking if he was all right.
"Sir," said the man, "I don't claim to know what just happened…but that was a real shocker!"
"My apologies…?"
"Louis, Sir. Um…in my family, they say my great-great-great grandfather Adam is the one that first saw that huge black Creature…"
"Oh, that," Yuugioh waved it off, "What happened, happened. Don't worry about it."
"Yes, Sir."
"And stop calling me Sir."
"Yes Sir."
((Master!))
The unusual conversation was thankfully ended when Laurel padded up. She shivered occasionally, but otherwise seemed unaffected by the strange fog. Louis handed the Humanformed god over to her and departed in search of a torch, preferably lit.
"When did all this happen?" Yuugioh demanded as Laurel started walking.
((Not long after you left,)) she replied, ((But whatever is making this darkness isn't on this island. Whoever it is, they must be a powerful god.))
"That 'Dark Lord' god, do you think?"
((Possibly - or an ally of his. But this whole island will be stuck in eternal night and fog if this isn't stopped soon - Master, I think it's spreading.))
"So how do we get there to stop them, then?"
Inspiration hit Yuugioh like a bolt of lightning. Of course! It was so obvious, he wondered why he hadn't figured it out already.
"Laurel - let's see this hole of darkness," Yuugioh said.
The feline Creature picked her way past all obstacles, her sense of smell guiding her along, until they reached a point where the darkness was absolute.
'It's practically a Vortex already, except that it doesn't really go anywhere…all I need to do is complete the circuit! Here goes nothing…'
Performing such a feat was no easy task for a god in normal form. Most gods couldn't even create Miracles in Humanform. But right now this was the only way to succeed. And therefore, Yuugioh would succeed. This was not going to defeat him!
The flow of black fog slowed and stopped, and the hole the fog had been coming out of started collapsing into itself. Laurel felt her fur standing on end as Yuugioh forced the energy to flow in a different way…
A golden beam of light shot skywards out of the center of the hole. The light spread and the hole expanded as a fierce wind picked up. For a tense second there was no sound, until suddenly there came a massive 'crack' as everything snapped into place and a stable Vortex came into being. All of the dangerous black fog was sucked in instantly.
"Well, that wasn't too difficult," Yuugioh muttered, reverting to his normal form and sighing with exhaustion.
"Dat was totally AWESOME!" Luster crowed in his ear.
"You've caught two birds with one net," Lupine agreed, "That horrible fog is gone, and you've finally created a Vortex!"
((Should we try to close the Vortex, Master?)) Laurel asked.
"…No," Yuugioh smirked, "This Vortex will lead to whatever just attacked us with that fog. And if someone has some sort of problem with me, then it's only fair that I find out what it is from them directly."
"Boss, dere's hope for ya yet!" Luster laughed.
