Author's Note: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or anything that does not belong to me.
Author's Note 2: Wheee! Chapter 17! And my ideas are still flowing like water from this disturbed head of mine! Whoo! I just back from the neiborhood game shop, where I won a duel through bluff! Technically you can't count it as cheating, 'cause I did nothing offensive and he coulda asked to see the card at any time during the duel! Well, now he knows that card doesn't do that, so he's wiser for next time.
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Chapter 17- Bestowing
Time/ Not important
Location/ The room at the end of the tunnel, Gates of Hell
"Are you sure you're ready for this?"
Ryou nodded to his step-sibling as Heather drew an intricate circular design on the ground around him in chalk. It was similar to the transport circle, except around the central ring were five extra rings, evenly spaced. In the center of each of the smaller circles were a different symbol; A demonic creature, a wolf, a strange monstrous beast, a sideways hour glass, and a lioness-headed woman wearing a horned sun-disk for a crown. Each were surmounted by a cartouche containing what Ryou assumed were names, though two of the circles had a pair of cartouches instead of one.
"As ready as anyone can be."
Heather finished the final line of spell and stood up, pocketing the chalk. Tait walked around the chalk drawing, checking each detail and nodding in approval.
"Ryou, Ba-Khu-Ra, please enter the center circle. Everyone else, take your positions. We must finish before something dark arrives."
They obeyed, standing in their respective spots: Tait with the hour glass, Andro with the demon, Heather and B with the beast, Laura with the wolf, and Nicole and Nessert with the lioness. The seven in the outer rings faced inwards towards Ryou and Bakura and shut their eyes, chanting different spells.
Ryou thought it was a trick of the light. Around the chanters there seemed to be clouds of different colored light, yet after a few moments he saw that the chanters were indeed glowing. It took him a few more seconds to realize he and Bakura were both glowing also.
Suddenly the chants, which had started off all being different, changed to be exactly the same. At the same time the chanters opened their eyes, suddenly devoid of pupils, and pointed at the two in the center.
"HENB!"
The light that had been radiating from their shoulders was redirected into the two between them. Ryou froze, both body and mind. The light, it felt strange and disturbing, as if someone had torn his soul out and was currently ripping large chunks out of it with a plastic spork. And as suddenly as the feeling had begun it stopped and the unearthly glow faded, along with Ryou's view.
Henb: To Bestow or transfer. Another Egyptian word.