Millennium I
Secrets of the Past
By Hikari Tsuki Chi
Chapter 18
Disclaimer: If I owned these characters and could draw, I would've made this into manga and have made a killin'.
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Chapter 18
"There IS a plan for when we meet the bad guy right?" asked Kaiba. He may have found out recently about Serena's secret, but he figured that they always had a plan. They do in books and movies anyway…
"Who says we have or need a plan?" countered Moon.
This brought everyone but Saturn, Dreamweaver, and herself crashing to the ground in shock. "You saying that you've WINGED saving the world for TWO years!" exclaimed Yami. "Aren't you supposed to be smart? So why are you living up to your odangos?"
Glaring at Yami with her death glare, she retorted, "You can never plan for everything. And this time I do have a plan, sort of."
"You do?"
"YES!"
"What?"
Moon sighed. "Millennium and the baka handle the spell, Dreamweaver you protect those you can't fight, and the rest of us run interference."
"Will holograms work on youma?" questioned Saturn.
"If the safety's off, probably."
"Will this even work?" Trust Yami to be the pessimist. You'd think he'd give her more credit…
"You have a better idea?" Echoing silence answered Moon's question.
Reaching a door, they stopped. "We sure we need to do this?"
"We're kinda the only people who CAN."
"Are we ready to die?" asked Moon.
"It's now or never." Answered Grandpa as Ma'at and Dreamweaver pushed open the door.
It was Osiris. "Hey, aren't you that guy who appeared in the museum?" asked Tea.
"You DO know that you violated Evil Villain Rule #1: Never, under any circumstances, reveal to the good guys your motives. They are meant to find out only when it is far too late to do anything about it. " Said Saturn.
"I'm a rebel. If you know what I want, then it makes it that much easier."
"How?"
This caused him to blink. "I'm not sure. It makes sense to state what you want."
With that, he summoned an army of youma. "Evil Villain Rule #2: In the final battle, you never use a youma army. You send your lackeys to their deaths right at the beginning and wear down the good guys until you yourself get your butt kicked." Said Moon, slicing youmas in half with her glaive.
"Ano, Hikari? I think he long since threw the Evil Villain Rulebook out the window." Said Millennium sweatdropping as she and Yami began to get ready for the spell.
"And didn't we kill his only lackeys?" questioned Saturn.
15 minutes later…
Okay, so far Osiris has violated many of the Evil Villain Rules. Battles with youma armies are ONLY to last ten minutes. Even with holograms from duel disks helping, he seemed to have an infinite supply, violating Rule #3. He also seemed to have directed them to stay away from Yami and Millennium, who were going over the spell, which is Rule #4. Also, he was NOT interested in attacking Dreamweaver and those who couldn't help in the fight, Grandpa, Tea, and Mokuba, thus violating Rule #5. Had he proceeded to violate Rules #6 and 7, which are to never tell the good guys how you can be killed and to never supply the good guys with said way to killing, respectively, he would have made history.
Done going over the spell, Yami and Millennium were ready to begin. Hooking their pendants together and forming a circle with their hands, they began to power up to the necessary magick levels.
Here, Osiris remedied his previous violation of Rule #4, ALWAYS direct the majority of your forces, should you choose to violate Rule #2, towards those who are performing the spell to kill and/or seal you. He now directed the youma army to attack them, thus causing those fighting said youma army to form a ring around them in order to allow them to proceed with the spell.
Reaching the necessary magick levels, Millennium's fuku faded away, changing. Yami's clothes did the same. Their clothes changed into what they wore in their flashbacks, matching crowns bearing the Eye of Dark Wisdom appearing on their heads. If there had been any doubt before about who they had been in the past, it's safe to say that that could now be put to rest. Opening eyes that had been closed, Yami and Yama began to chant the spell.
Even as the spell was officially beginning, Moon sensed something strange. She couldn't place her finger on it, but something seemed off. Glancing down at her brooch, she exclaimed, "What the-"
Her brooch was glowing.
Yugi, who was standing next to her, looked over in shock. The outer cover of the brooch faded away, and the Silver Moon Imperial Millennium Crystal floated. Moon's fuku changed into her Princess Serenity gown, and Yugi's clothes changed into armor, similar to Endymion's but the colors were silver and white. Glancing over to him, Serenity couldn't help but think about cute he looked like that.
But before she could make any comment about it, she, and everyone else, received another surprise.
A wand appeared before Serenity and Yugi, and the Crystal came to rest on top of it. "The Moon Wand…I thought I had lost it…" whispered Serenity.
Yet even as she said that, the Moon Wand began to change. Where it had been pink, it was now silver. The crescent was still gold, but was dusted with silver.
Osiris's eyes widened. "This was what I was trying to avoid." He said. "Now I just have to kill you." Sending an energy blast at the pair.
A relatively weak Shadow shield appeared around them, cast by Yama. It was weak because most of her energy and focus was on the spell, but it was enough to stop the blast.
Holding the newly changed Moon Wand, Serenity and Yugi said, "This ends now Osiris!" As the crescent moons on their foreheads began to glow, Osiris realized he was in very deep trouble. His vain attempt to counter the VERY powerful blast of moon energy being sent towards him by the combined power of Serenity and Yugi failed tremendously. Severely weakened by their attack, he stood no chance as Yami and Yama completed their spell.
"By our power open this door, and cast the one who would dare stand against into thy abyss. May he wander for eternity in the darkness!" They exclaimed as the spell caught Osiris, sending him into a dark abyss, which looked to be the Shadow Realm.
As the portal closed, and those whose clothes changed faded back into what they had been wearing before, Yami, panting, had to ask, "Are ALL of your final battles this hard?"
Leaning against Kaiba, who seemed to be conveniently standing there, Moon said, "No. Usually they're harder."
"This was a good one. Nobody died." Said Saturn. "Even the enemy didn't die, but he was sealed so that makes it even."
Suddenly finding themselves back in the park, where several hours had past from when they had been taken, the senshi transformed back into their normal selves, lest they drawn attention. Surprisingly, no one had noticed their disappearance, though Kaiba was very disappointed that he had been cut off from his company for several hours, even if it was by force. Drifting apart to return home, it had been mutually decided not to really talk about what had occurred for several days, at least.
After all, what WAS there to talk about, after all that had happened?
Someplace we don't know where…A gray haired woman prepared to leave. "Well, I'm ready."
"I wish you didn't have to go." Said a white haired woman, pouting.
"You know that she has to." Replied a black haired woman.
"Sorry in advance." Said the gray haired woman.
"Don't be. It's not as if we knew." Shrugged the white haired woman, waving her hand as if to wave her apology away. "Besides, the two of us hafta think about your punishment." Her eyes sprinkling as she spoke.
"Remember, don't loss the key. You won't be able to get a hold of a new one." Reminded the black haired woman.
"How can I forget koi?" Retorted the gray haired woman.
Raising the key in question above her head, she spoke a few words, and disappeared into a column of light. Turning to the white haired woman, the black haired woman said, "What do you have in mind?"
Blinking, she replied, "Well…"
I'm sure we'd rather not learn what these two are planning, right? That's what the mind is for. I don't think what they're planning is even ALLOWED a TENTATIVE rating of R…
With Osiris…wherever that is…"Okay, strike one." Said Osiris, speaking to the darkness.
In truth, where he had been sent wasn't all that bad. In fact, it was his real headquarters, not that the Pharaoh and his sister knew that. The spell had been weak enough without that power of their true names for him to redirect the portal to his true headquarters. Plan A could conclusively be called a failure, so it was time for Plan B. But first, he needed generals. He already knew where NOT to look, so it could be said that his shopping choices were limited.
But as fate would have, his desired items practically dropped into his lap.
"Set, what are you doing here? Were you not sealed after…" Osiris trailed off. The generals that had served his parents loyally. Set. Imhotep. Sensouko. And a woman he did not know.
"We were, My Lord. But she-" gesturing to the woman on his right, the one he had not recognized, "-freed us. She desires to help bring an end to the Senshi as well."
Osiris sized her up. Gray hair, blood red bangs, cold amber eyes. She was roughly 5'3", and had four scars on her right cheek, which appeared to be claw marks. "What is your name and why revived these generals?" he asked of her.
Smirking coldly, she said, "My name is Sekhmet, and I had observed your defeat at the hands of the Senshi and the Royal Moon Line. It seems to me that your previous generals were occupied with obsessions and old vendettas. Only those who originally served Chaos could possibly bring you any honor."
"What would you gain from doing this and aiding me as a fourth general?"
"Personal satisfaction at seeing the senshi and the Royal Moon Line getting what they all very well deserve…washing away their blood with more of their blood."
Osiris nodded, satisfied. "Do you swear to serve me with your life?"
"I swear."
"I accept you as my fourth general…Sekhmet. And now is the time to begin the necessary preparations."
End of Chapter 18Well? I think I left the majority, if not all, of the readers confused. The stuff with Osiris won't be settled until the sequel, Millennium II: Journey to the Past. And Sekhmet's true identity won't be revealed for a VERY long time.
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