Esther: -steps forth from the shadows- Yay, people! I'm back at this story! And though it's been a while…
Bakura: A long while…
Diabound: A really long while…
Mysterious voice: A really, really long while…
Bakura: A way too long while…
Diabound: A-
Esther: Shut up! –angry look-
Bakura: -rolls eyes- Just start already!
Esther: yahyah… -shrugs-
Mysterious voice: Remember the deadline…
Esther: which… Oh SHIT! O.O
Diabound: finally… she remembers…
Esther: -frantically starts typing- must catch deadline… must avoid Jessica's wrath… -type type type- must catch… AAHR! Only 3,5 hours left O.O And then come to think I wrote the Dutch version of this exactly four months ago! –sweat drops-
Thank you Marjoram for being about the only one reading this… or in any case reviewing my story every time! I feel so flattered you know! Oh and I have to tell you… you were wrong, lol! –evil look- I thought that too many Pharao/seto pov's already are being used so… I picked a different, less used, yet more interesting person… -avoids angry fangirls-
I walked through the garden and was busy studying the plants.
Plants had always fascinated me.
They brought me peace.
Absent-minded I let my hand follow the growth of their flowers and leaves.
I softly touched the leaf of a small tree.
My eyes followed the way of every single vein.
They were like the path of life, Splitting up in all directions, reaching for different parts of the surface they were crossing.
They just kept on going, finding their way until they reached the edge.
Then they suddenly stopped.
Everything in my environment suddenly disappeared into the background.
All colors became faint, shapes started to run and slowly shifting into one another.
Then the sounds muted, until everything I heard was a soft unidentifiable murmuring in the back of my head.
The leaf in my hand was the only clear thing left.
It started growing and kept on gaining size, getting out of my sight, sucking me in, until I stood in the heart.
There where all veins were gathered to form one big intersection of possibilities.
One of those roads was closed by a gate.
It was made out of black stone and carved with immense figures I could not identify.
Long vines covered in thorns the size of my arm wrapped all around it, filling every crack and hollow space.
It emitted the ominous feeling of a great evil.
And it was ajar.
I didn't want to but my legs started walking in that direction.
All of me silently screamed to run, to go, to leave this gate.
Still there was that part in my mind refusing.
It was that same part forcing me to walk on.
That part wanted to know what threatened us.
It wanted to know what lay behind that dark gate.
I walked like what seemed forever.
The intersection was way bigger than I first expected.
I still needed to go half way and already lost my sight on the highest part of that gateway.
Only when I was so close that I lost my sight on the two far sides too, I could see what drew me to this place.
Just in front of those huge doors stood a person.
That one stood there with raised hands, looking in the direction of the in thorns covered obstacle to the future.
The whole scene seemed as if this person was the one who was opening the gate, the one who held the key to all of this.
Compared to the gate, this being was so inferior, so small, that I wouldn't even have noticed that one to be there…
Though that person was extremely small, compared to the future it unleashed, his aura told me, assured me, forced me not to overlook him.
Step after step, minute after minute.
I walked on, no longer even capable of fearing this gate.
The message it emitted had become too strong for me to notice.
It filled everything now, it had almost numbed my complete consciousness.
It made it hard to breathe.
I was walking for hours, just to get a better view on this shadowy person.
I didn't even ask myself why I knew how this person stood while he still was miles away from me.
Not even why I knew that man was really there.
I just knew.
Fate told me.
Every step doubled my trouble breathing.
The feeling threatened to overtake me.
Still some part of me forced me to walk.
To place one foot before the other.
It forced me not to fall for the images flashing before my eyes.
One step after another.
Fire
The city
on fire
Seas of fire
Gods unleash their fury
And die
The immortals die
Slowly I caught my breath back.
One foot before another.
Who would unleash this?
Light crashes down
It splits the darkness
In one flash
One flash of a second
It takes the night away.
City in ruins
Dead
Everywhere
The light disappears
The darkness descends
Again
Thunder roars
I managed to open my eyes.
I lay on cracked stones of a black path.
A black path leading to a black gate of future.
The pressure on my throat almost made me choke.
I somehow tilted my head up.
My sight was unclear and shifted.
Still I saw that just in front of me, facing the gate, that man stood.
His long clothes waved on a wind that was not there.
His pale hair softly billowed in the same, inexistent breeze.
He was completely fixated on the black gate emitting its ominous glow.
He didn't notice me.
I was just a bystander.
His evil intentions still slowly choked me.
My lungs screamed for air.
This wasn't just a vision.
He turned around and looked at me.
I saw
Nothing
I returned with a shock.
I got back on my feet as soon as I could.
My normal, calm way of acting had disappeared completely.
I made my way as fast as I could, more tripping than running.
I focused my last energy on one only thing.
To go on.
I limped inside, my feet found their way.
I threw my full weight against the doors just to open them.
I fell inside.
Everyone looked up in terror.
I somehow reached his throne.
"Great evil is heading toward us"
My words echoed through the silent room.
No-one moved.
Everyone was petrified by my entrance and my words.
He suddenly stood up and ran down the stairs in front of his throne.
He was just in time to catch me when my consciousness finally left me in the dark.
My hand clutched a crumbled and withered leaf.
One of its veins was colored like blood.
Esther: Well, that was it for this chapter… I know it wasn't that long, sorry for that, but I now figured out how I'm going to write most of the future chapters so… I'm updating a lot faster now, lol!
Bakura: yeah, yeah… that's what they all say…
Esther: Are you jealous for not being in this chapter?
Bakura: YEAH! It's my fic radammit!
Esther: No, it's my fic! I'm writing this!
Bakura: Yeah and I'm the one in the summary! –raises scimitar- WHY AM I NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS STORY?
Esther: -sweat drops- You mean you want a story only consisting of you? With no other characters involved? Sorry, but that would be difficult… and boring…
Bakura: Why? Aren't I the hottest villain of anime dome? –smirks-
Esther: -thinks-
Bakura: -raises scimitar-
Esther: I'm not answering this…
Bakura: I don't wanna know…
Esther: good –smiles-
Bakura: Then at least tell me who that mysterious person is that stole my fic! No one steals from Bakura the thief king! That's an insult!
Esther: -takes a BIG step back- Sorry, Though the identity is kinda obvious, I'd still like people to guess for themselves… But no worries… it will be revealed next week… Then will the next chapter come. I promise!
Bakura: Yeah and in three weeks your summer break starts… better write more then! –angry look-
Esther: That's a promise too! –sweet smile- For now, people… Please review! You can flame if you want to, any kind of review is welcome! But I'll warn you… I tend to take flames as something very funny and I'll probably be cracking up at reading them… Fanmail is welcome too-
Bakura: so modest –rolls eyes-
Esther: Well… it could be…
Bakura: Yeah, after the next 3000 years maybe…
Esther: nvm him… -stuffs Bakura in package and sends him to Timbuktu- So where was I… Oh yeah! Some constructive criticism would be welcome too! I'll always read it and then look if I can use it. Same goes for suggestions, tips, or… anything actually. I'm begging you to review so please do…
Diabound: And that was the end of her one page taking rant…
Esther: Exactly... Ciao!
-Takes off hat and disappears in a poof of smoke-