Millennium I: Secrets of the Past

By Hikari Tsuki Chi

Chapter 10

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Note: What does one say when one is as sick as a dog?

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Oh! This is the answer to a question someone who reviewed me asked. I don't remember who it is, since I can't access e-mail off-line, but I hope this answers your question. Darien's not the prince of Atlantis; he's the prince of Elysion, ya know, where Helios lives? Also in this story, Atlantis was under at least two miles of water by the time the Shadow Games happened and the Moon Kingdom was destroyed. Dartz and his people will play no part in this story, cuz it just doesn't work with my plot line here. In fact, it will be AU after Battle City, so nothing with the Doom arc or the Grand Prix. And Memory World won't even be mentioned until the sequel to this story, Millennium II: Journey to the Past.

Enjoy the chapter while the authoress peels herself off the floor. Why can't it stop moving? Bad, bad floor…

Chapter 10

Serena got up to the dueling arena with 15 minutes to spare before the next duel began. She found a nice patch of metal to sit down on, since she was suddenly getting dizzy. –Daijoubou?

Genki…desu. This is the first time I've changed from Serena to Serenity and back without being Sailor Moon first. But something's going to happen. Something big. -

Kaiba glanced over at where Serena was sitting. She looks a little pale, I wonder if she's okay? Mokuba had to promise the guy she yelled at a 5 pay raise just to get him to stay.

Yama? –

Yeah? –

Can you take over? I don't wanna miss the duel, but I'm not a big fan of passing out either. –

Taking over Serena's body, Yama turned her attention back to the link. –Are you sure you're not coming down with anything? –

…It's Marik's magick. It's too negative for me to handle without passing out. Remember what I told you about Diamond and the Black Poison Crystal? It's the same thing as that. Because of the Yami-no-Game that was fought here by him, my magick's reacting to it and it's making me sick, because my magick's trying to purify the negative magick and it can't do that without hitting the source, which isn't here. Can you also act like me, when the big thing happens? –

What are you talking about? –

It was too late, Serena was asleep. Well, thought Yama, I'll find out what she means soon enough.

The duel was interesting enough, between Yami's belief in destiny and Kaiba's disbelief in said force. Faint images played at the edge of her memory, the present day images being superimposed under ancient versions of the people she saw dueling before her, names just out of reach.

But something changed as both Kami-no-Carddos unleashed their ancient power, power that had threatened to destroy the world 5,000 years ago. Power for which the Pharaoh gave his soul to seal. Thought Yama darkly, as the same light that engulfed Kaiba and Yami swallowed her up as well, sending her hurdling back into the past.

Yama found herself floating above a destroyed city with Kaiba and Yami. "Okay…where the hell are we?" she asked. Act like Serena.

"How should we know?" "What are you doing here?" Asked Kaiba and Yami at the same time.

"How the hell would I know? I just got dragged along for the ride." Yama shrugged, feeling she had pulled Serena off successfully.

Yami narrowed his eyes suspiciously at her, but his attention was diverted as Kaiba drew his attention to two huge frozen statues. They were the God of the Obelisk and the Saint of Dragons, God of Orisis, locked in battle forever.

Floating over the city, everyone noticed how trashed the city was, as if a great battle had been fought right in the city, without care for whomever it affected. Yami suggested that they go into the palace, and soon they found themselves there. They floated above the scene on the floor below them. It was the Pharaoh and his High Priest, the pre-incarnations of Yami and Kaiba.

Their duel was just beginning, the same duel that would be carved onto the tablet they had all seen at the museum. Looking around the room for some reason as to why she would be dragged along with the two rivals, Yama saw someone next to a column, one of many that ran along the side of the room. Focusing in on the person, Yama silently gasped. It was herself, dressed in the clothes of royalty. There was a similar crown to the one on the Pharaoh's on hers', and the Millennium Crystal hung from a thin rope around her neck. She was silent as she watched the duel, though to Yama it was obvious that she was worried for those involved in the duel. The same tablet in the museum appeared down on the dueling floor, the incident carved into the stone as the three watchers were thrown back to their own time. Panting as she landed back in the future, Yama was silent, as the image of the stone tablet remained burned in her mind. To one side, the side where the Pharaoh was carved, next to one of the columns, stood the same girl that Yama had seen watching the duel. The person she believed in her heart to be her ancient self.

Yama played no attention to the reminder of the duel. The winner was clear. She withdrew to the soulrooms of Serena's mind. Opening her eyes to find herself in the room of her soulroom that was closest to Serena's, Yama quickly opened her door and knocked on Serena's door. "Hai?"

"Can I come in?" she asked.

"Come on." Opening the door, Yama found Serena curled up on a beanbag chair with a blanket in one corner of the room. Serena held up her blanket, inviting Yama to join her. Joining her hikari on the chair, and pulling her close, Yama waited for her to speak.

"What happened? I woke up just a few minutes ago and you weren't there." Said Serena, snuggling close to Yama.

Yama's face flushed slightly, but as she explained what happened, it faded, as she grew used to having her hikari in her arms. "So this is solid proof right? That you were someone important in the past." Commented Serena when Yama was done with her explanation.

"I don't know. For all we know, the cards and the Items made it all up, since the Rod was glowing, like it did when Kaiba dueled Ishizu."

"But I think that the Items are more like databases or magickal batteries than something that could make something up, at least not without a guideline of some sorts. So some if it is true, but I have a feeling that all of it is true."

"But why during the duel?"

"The Kami-no-Carddos acted as the catalyst for the flashback. I doubt that they were supposed to go against each other without some sort of consequences."

"I guess so."

"I better go back. I think it's almost time for the final duel."

"Why watch? Don't you know who's gonna win anyway?"

"Why do you say that?"

"You never seem to worry about the outcome of anything, it's like you know what's gonna happen."

"It's not that I know what's gonna happen, it's that I know that I'll be able to beat Marik if Yami and Yugi can't."

Yeah, she can face anything. She's a lot stronger than I'll ever be. She can look Marik in the eye and not back down, not like me.

Yama stronger than I'll ever be. I could never face not knowing anything about my past like she does, not without letting it get to me.

Like Yama said, Serena really wasn't interested in the final duel. The only good thing about the duel was that she wasn't in it. Though she was mad at Marik for using the good Marik and Yugi in such a way as point markers. In either situation, he wins as win or lose, the good Marik will die.

It got interesting when the good Marik possessed Tea, and when Rishid appeared, urging his master, the good Marik, to fight his darker half and for the Pharaoh to save the good Marik.

Isn't that card a bit desperate? - Asked Serena as Yami played Ragnarok.

Possibly. But it's really the only move he can make that'll save the good Marik. —

True. -

Serena really wasn't all that surprised when Yami did win. After two years of fighting for good, it really didn't seem like that big of a deal when good won. Have I lost the drive I had to fight? Wondered Serena as the blimp flew back to the mainland. I see no point in this dance between good and evil. It's endless, and not even the destruction of the Galaxy Cauldron can stop it, for a new cauldron would just be created elsewhere, an endless and eternal dance between the forces of good and evil. Cosmos and Chaos. As it was then, and as it is now, and as it will be. Forever. So why fight? Is it for the innocents that have no one? But when one knows their destiny, what point is there in continuing in this eternal fight? My fighting days will end when Crystal Tokyo is created, and I become Neo Queen Serenity, so why continue to fight? It's like I've frozen inside, nothing affects me anymore. Not since that night, when my innocence was taken unwillingly and my family was killed. Why is my inner fire frozen like it is? How can I get it back?

Serena continued to brood on the way back to the Kame Shop. Yugi was too busy talking to Yami, discussing the fight and what they had seen on Marik's back to notice Serena's brooding. –Hikari…are you okay? —

Why don't I have a drive to fight anymore? It's like my inner fire is frozen. I don't get the thrill I once got, fighting evil, protecting innocents, protecting this world. My destiny and future is set, so why fight anymore? -

To find out how your journey ends. To find out how much of a difference you make. Isn't that reason enough? —

I guess so, but ever since my family died, I just haven't had that drive anymore, like I don't care. -

Something else happened that night, didn't it? —

What…what do you mean? -

There's a catch in your voice. And when you were telling me about how your family was killed, when you said that you got held up, your eyes got a haunted look. So what happened, so I can send whomever caused it to Ammit personally? —

An hour later, as Serena did up her bed, Yama was still ranting and cursing Diamond to kingdom come. –Calm down Yama, I'm getting a headache. -

He…that godless son of a…how could you act like it didn't happen, or that it didn't affect you? —

The fact that I stabbed him and he turned tail before he released helps. But I still dream about it. -

How do you live with it? —

I just do. -

I could never 'just live' with something like that if it happened to me. I'll never be as strong as my hikari, with her beautiful strong light. Thought Yama as she lay down to sleep. Since learning that Yama hated to sleep in her own soulroom, as it was in the Crystal, Serena practically ordered her to sleep in her soulroom. Secretly, Yama didn't mind, and was glad that Serena trusted her so much as to let her sleep in her soulroom.

Listening to the music as she watched the stars and moon outside her window above her bed, Serena couldn't help but feel that there was something missing inside of her.

Please, please forgive me

But I won't be home again

Maybe someday you'll look out

And barely conscious you'll say to no one:

'Isn't something missing?'

You won't cry for my absence I know

You forgot me long ago

Am I that unimportant?

Am I so insignificant?

Isn't something missing?

Isn't someone missing me?

Even though I'm the sacrifice,

You won't try for me, not now

Though I'd die to know you love me,

I'm all alone

Isn't someone missing me?

Please, please forgive me

But I won't be home again

I know what you do to yourself

I breathe deep and cry out:

'Isn't something missing?

Isn't someone missing me?'

Even though I'm the sacrifice,

You won't try for me, not now

Though I'd die to know you love me,

I'm all alone

Isn't someone missing me?

And if I bleed, I'll bleed

Knowing you don't care

And if I sleep just to dream of you

And wake without you there

Isn't something missing?

Isn't something…

Even though I'm the sacrifice,

You won't try for me, not now

Though I'd die to know you love me,

I'm all alone

Isn't something missing?

Isn't someone missing me?

(Evanescence, "Anywhere But Home, Bonus track #14)

There is something missing, my inner drive and fire. Where did it go? How do I get it back? Will I ever get it back? Thought Serena. I sacrifice my happiness…for the greater good, for destiny…and for the people of the universe.

Oh hikari-aibou…Thought Yama, saddened by her hikari's negative thoughts. I won't let you sacrifice your own happiness for everyone else, just because you think you have to. If you're not happy, how can you fight your hardest?

The moon princess has lost her drive for justice and the safety of others. How did she lose it? Can she get it back? One thing is for certain though, now that one play is over, a new one is just beginning, and the forces of Chaos will force the moon princess to fight, whether she likes it or not…

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