Woot! I'm back! I'm surprised I actually got this off my computer! God, I'm happy! Ok, this chapter has a little angst, I think, not sure… whatever.
Nefti: Thanks, I really like Yami as a god too! Te he!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, but I own the gods! Muahaha! Oh, god I sound like Yami Marik.
Up in the heavens, Efreet and Celsius were facing off once again in another battle. The Fire God's hands were burning with flames covering his them like gloves while the Ice God have created a spear made of pure sharp ice.
The two ran at each other and stood in a draw, Celsius's spear held sideways, blocking the other's fists. Efreet turned his gritted teeth into a grin as he grabbed onto the lance as well, causing it to melt into two pieces.
"Now what?" the Flame deity smirked.
"This."
The Frost divinity brought his arms crossed over his chest, then threw them out to his sides, long, pointed pillars of ice forming into swords around his hands, gleaming in the sunlight. Efreet gulped, jumping back as the Ice Oppressor nearly cut a new tattoo in his stomach.
Over on the sidelines, were Sylph, Koudo and Volt. Sylph was floating in midair, her fists in balls and held in front of her body, her method of cheering for her lover. Koudo was sitting on the floor, his legs spread out and he was leaning on his palms lazily. Volt was standing, almost leaning against an invisible wall with his arms and legs crossed, just happy to be with the others.
"That's right! Go Efreet!" cheered Sylph.
The God of Fire smirked and ran at his opponent, grasping him in a furious bear hug. The heat from Efreet's body melted away the swords and left Celsius cringing in pain.
The Fire God smirked triumphantly, "This is where I win!"
The other deity shot back the same grin, "I think not."
Efreet jerked a little in surprise, looking down at Celsius's hands, where one had formed a giant ball of baby blue mana. The Fire Tyrant smiled embarrassingly as Celsius blew him across the battlefield, skidding on his back. Wounds now covered his chest and his back was sore from the skid, Efreet just laid there, panting for breath.
The God of Ice calmly walked over and formed a dagger made of ice, holding it in front of Efreet almost threateningly. It was the sign that the victor had been decided.
The Fire God gasped at Celsius, thinking he might actually slit his throat, when he didn't lower his weapon. That was until he smiled and dropped the dagger and it evaporated into nothing. Celsius stuck out his hand and helped Efreet sit up straight, still unable to stand.
The spectators looked on with smiles, glad for the winner, except Sylph. She had tears forming in her eyes and she dropped her hands to her lap, but a small smile formed because he had tried his best.
Celsius was just standing over Efreet, watching his former opponent until her looked over his shoulder to his right, everyone else following his gaze.
Undine was walking with her shoulder hunched a little bit; her head was cast down so her bangs covered her eyes and her expression.
"Well, look who's finally up." smiled Celsius.
Efreet waved his fingers in a childish way and spoke in the same type of voice, "Morning Sunshine."
If she noticed their greetings, the goddess ignored them completely and continued walking past them, the two gods giving her strange looks.
"What's her problem?" asked the Fire God and Celsius shrugged.
The Goddess of Water just continued walking until she was about in front of the three observers, who clearly didn't hear what just happened before.
"Undine! How pleased I am to see you!" Sylph said excitedly, running closer to give her a signature hug.
The Wind Goddess ran right up to her with her arms open wide, but gasped as the other ducked out of the way and walked past her, the watery skirt flowing from the sudden movement. Saddened, she slowly lowered her arms and Efreet came running up and hugged her from behind, trying to comfort the Wind deity.
"Undine!" he called angrily, "What the hell is your problem?"
She still didn't answer; the Goddess of Water just continued to stride past everyone, including Volt and Koudo, still looking on with curious faces. The Earth God stood up and jogged after her, placing his arm on her shoulder and forced her to stop.
"Hey, what's wrong? Woke up on the wrong side of the reef?" Koudo asked jokingly.
"Oh, you have the right to joke, you selfish bastard!" she raged, her voice starting out soft and then transforming into a scream.
"What?" he started.
Undine didn't give him the chance to finish, her left arm became moldable and it turned into a whip like weapon. She swung it, hitting the God of Earth directly in the stomach, his face turned into one of shock and pain. Koudo flew rearward and landed hard on his back before she ran up to strike him again.
This time, her arm turned stiff, forming into a sword, her hand reappearing at the hilt. She held it menacingly in her right hand above his body, before a giant fireball crash into her back, making her fly off of him and land on her stomach.
"What the hell happened to you, Undine? Why the fuck are you attacking Koudo?" demanded Efreet, his hands still flaming.
"Yeah!" piped Sylph, "We all know he's an ass but this is so sudden!"
"Why?" she asked, her voice laced with some craziness, "Why shouldn't I beat the selfish bastard? He couldn't just fight me alone over his resentfulness, no, he had to drag all of you in too."
"What are you talking about?" Volt ordered, curiosity obvious in his voice, "You're not still angry about…"
"Atlantis…" Koudo finished, shakily rising to his feet.
"Yes…" she hissed, eyes blazing with fury, "And why shouldn't I be angry about that? I had a perfect paradise! A utopia! Then you destroyed it! All because you were jealous! All of you!"
"What? Undine, you know that we all decided that it was best. Atlantis grew too powerful…" Sylph said with her voice showing her sadness.
"No… Atlantis was fine, that bastard was just egotistical! He thought that Atlantis was more powerful than his precious mortals on the mainland, so he proposed that it be destroyed instead of letting his people being conquered!" she challenged.
"That…that's not true! I was afraid that they might retaliate against you, then come after us!" the Earth God argued back, slowly backing up.
"You lying bastard!"
Undine couldn't take it any more and lunged at him, her sword slashing at his chest or neck, which ever, jugular vein or heart, she could rip out first. Out of disbelief, he fell to the floor and narrowly rolled out of the way when she stabbed her sword in the ground.
"Undine, stop this before you do something you will regret!" Celsius spoke.
Koudo could barely dodge her furious attacks; they were coming left and right, slicing almost too fast for him. Finally, she let her strikes to slow a bit, making the god wonder what she was doing.
"Drown! Aqua Laser!"
His eyes widened as a giant wave crashed into him, making the god fall to the ground, clutching his stomach to try and stop the throbbing. He was left panting for air with a large bruise gradually appearing on his chest.
Undine wasn't let better off, tears were pouring down her cheeks; she didn't want to hurt him, but keeping it all inside did nothing. She dropped the blade and it clattered as it shattered into little drops of water, her shoulders jerking as she was quietly sobbing.
Soon, a blinding light appeared out of nowhere as it slowly lowered itself to the ground, a person's figure seen in it.
"What happened?" demanded a booming voice.
The Water Goddess's head shot up, dread showing in her tear stained eyes. She sluggishly turned to face the light, the source of the voice.
"Umm…"
"What happened here?" it thundered again.
"…" Undine didn't speak, she couldn't. The goddess was frozen from shock and terror, shock from what she had just done, terror for what was going to happen to her.
Out of the illumination stepped a boy. He looked like a young teen and surprisingly like Volt, for he had the same hair and almost the same eyes, only his were a soft violet, caring and understanding showed within them. He was wearing a golden tunic and denims with golden Greek like sandals.
The yellow clad boy walked up to Undine, placing his hand gently on her shoulder and spoke in a very soft and coaxing voice, "Tell me."
She went to speak, but instead bit her lip and looked the other way, shame scarring her face. The boy frowned sadly and walked away from her and over to the others, looking at Koudo. He stared at him before waving his hand and the God of Earth floated to his feet and with another wave, a bright glow surrounded his injuries, magically wrapping them with cloth and practically healing them.
"What happened here?" the boy asked once again, a strange urge to obey commanded his innocent voice.
"Undine…she came up here. She wasn't acting like herself…so…we asked her what was wrong. All of a sudden she started talking about Atlantis, she was acting insane." Efreet explained, almost in remorse for telling.
"Aska…" Undine started, and then bit her lip again.
The boy, Aska, walked closer to her, a bit of the kindness leaving his appearance. He stood in a confident stance, starting to become serious and forceful.
"Undine, what caused this behavior?" the King asked.
Again, she looked away, chewing on her tongue with her hands clenched at her sides, her fingernails digging into her palms.
"Down…down on the planet…um… Priestess Ishizu came to me. She said that some mortal had found the tablet. The one that shows the destruction of Atlantis." Undine said hesitantly.
"What's so bad about that?" Efreet asked a little forcefully.
"What's so bad about that," she started, anger returning to her voice, "Is that the tablet shows of Atlantis, and Atlantis' technology. If one were to look too close, they would see the designs and be able to copy them. Which is the last thing we want, isn't it?"
The last part of her explanation she spit out, trying to blame it on them as much as possible, making Efreet cringe and regret saying anything. Aska raised his hand, gaining every gods attention immediately. He walked over and placed his hand on the Goddess of Water's shoulder again, talking to her privately although everyone could hear him.
"That is not all which is bothering you is it?" the King inquired tenderly.
Undine thought about her dolphins, her favorite animal in her domain. They would still frolic and play carelessly, even though they were in pain. She shook her head, trying to get the thoughts out of her head, a few tears flying in the air.
Soon, she felt like everyone had vanished at it was just she and Aska. After taking a deep breath she decided to tell him something she had been meaning to for a few decades now.
"Aska, I am…not alright."
He leaned back a bit in surprise, and then brought his hand from her shoulder to her hand, holding it, showing her that he was there for support.
"The humans…they have been dumping their trash in my lakes…and my oceans. They are creating things that are 'radioactive', it is killing themselves as well as the creatures of the reef and the reef itself, as well as Me." the last part was spoken softly, weariness now revealing on her face.
"What!" everyone yelled shocked.
"It is seeping out of its crates and mixing with the water, soon the humans will dump more. Soon the concentration will become strong enough where they will kill themselves; of course it will take millennia, but it will happen. I am basically all right, but I am feeling more tired than usual. More importantly, I weep for my creatures, I am giving them my mana so they heal faster."
Suddenly, everyone looked closer, they saw how her did not shine as bright as it did and there were more wrinkles in her young face. Soon, her down cast face looked up and she looked the same as she did before, her skin glowing radiantly and no lines in her gorgeous and radiant face.
"So that's why you haven't been yourself." Celsius realized.
Undine looked away mortified, she then turned into her pure water form and quickly escaped the planet below them, wanting to get away from their stares.
The Goddess of Water sat once again on her island; just sitting there calmed her nerves, releasing all of the tension built up in her body. She breathed in the sea air and let it tickle her lungs before freeing it slowly.
A familiar burst of mana appeared behind her, one that opposed her as a matter of fact. Immediately, she stood up and went to walk away, when a hand snatched hers and refused to let her move, the contact making a medium electric shock course through her body.
Undine shrieked as she felt her body go limp and fell into a pair of strong, lean arms. When she lazily opened her eyes half way, she noticed brilliant crimson ones staring back at her, almost tearing up.
"Undine…"
The goddess angrily and weakly pushed against his chest, falling to the ground and just sat on all fours. She was wheezing and her lungs rattled with each breath as she shakily tried to stand up, when Volt grabbed her arm firmly and lifted her arm, again taking her into his arms.
"Undine, what didn't you tell me?" he asked, starting soft, then desperate, shaking her shoulders, "I can understand the others, but why? Why didn't you tell me?"
She grunted and wiggled out of his grasp, panting and having her head facing the ground, "Because…I knew how you would react. Just like this. You think that it is your fault, but it's not. You just gave the mortals technology; you never limited them on how to use it. Which in sense is both good and bad. I do not blame you for this."
"Well you should!" he cried, "Because I gave the humans technology and it's killing you! How can you not be outraged at me?"
Undine looked at him, her eyes narrowed and determined, "I am not dead yet and Mana be praised that I won't go down without a fight. I do not blame you, nor do I blame all of the mortals, it is only few that are dumping the toxins in the ocean. I will not destroy all of mankind because of that."
Volt strolled up and wrapped his arms around her, arms and shoulders as well, then let go as he saw her wince. The goddess shook her head and took his hand in hers, enclosing it around her neck as she leaned into his chest. She felt strange to him; so he looked down to she her slightly cringe from the little bits of electricity coursing through her body, affecting her extra.
After some time past, the moon was shining brightly in the sky, making the two gods glow in it's radiant light. Volt felt Undine shift in his embrace and looked down upon her form, his eyes showing compassion and love.
"It grows late. I should head back to my temple, I am weary from the day's events." she spoke, looking up at him.
"Must you leave me so soon?" he moaned, nuzzling her cheek.
"Unless you would want me to sleep here."
The god brought her closer, "I have no problem with it."
"I'm afraid you don't make a good pillow, my dear Volt." Undine replied teasingly.
"I am offended!"
The goddess smiled and made her body become moldable and raised her upper body a little higher, to match Volt's height. She lightly brushed her lips against his when his hand gently pushed the back of her head in closer.
He started to make it very passionate, when Undine regretfully pushed him away. She now had a cut on her hand, beginning to bleed from the lightning going through its opposite. The god looked guilty but the Water Goddess just softly caressed his face, forgiving him.
Undine then rose up to the sky and dived into the water, creating a small splash. For a minute, Volt watched the ripples and they started small, and then grew large until the water was still once more.
The God of Thunder sighed as he transformed into his signature bolt of lightning and disappeared unto the heavens.
So, there you have it! And I'm sorry for the extremely long wait. My computer has almost been pronounced legally dead because of reasons unknown. It keeps frying my keyboards. Anyway, I hoped you liked it and please review!
