LefthandedFreak: Ahh, piece and quite.
Joey: And you know what that means!
LefthandedFreak: Another chapter! Anyways, I will soon need my reviewers help for the ending of this story….(burst into tears)
Joey: (pats her back) there, there. So what? Your fist successful story is about to end and you'll miss coming up with plans and ideas of what you'll make Fate and us do next. It's ok. (LefthandedFreak cries harder) That didn't help did?
LefthandedFreak: (sniffs) To… my reviewers.
DragonLady222
Aphrodite rocks! (Head bangs) Anyways, sadly, not everything ends well. Did I just give a hint? Bad Lefthand, bad. I hope you like this chapter. And it's not exactly whom you think unless you know about Greek Mythology. I love Greek Mythology. (sighs happily)
HellsEternalFlame
Whoa, aggression! Here, beat this up (hands you pillow) I'm a sadist? That's a first. I hope you like this chapter, though it'll probably make you think I'm more of a sadist. (shrugs)
Now, one more thing I need to say. It is way easier to spell Fate than Aphrodite so I might accidentally put Fate's name down instead of the others. Extremely sorry. Now onto the story.
"Wait. Aphrodite? The Greek Goddess of Love?" The woman shrugged.
"I'm not really a Goddess but more of a Higher Being. See, I'm more of the employee instead of the employer. But right now, that doesn't matter." Aphrodite waved her hand a bit, "What's important right now is that I need your help."
Yugi raised a brow. "Why do you need my help? For what?" The blonde beauty looked desperately at him.
"I need you to help save an innocent life."
Fate held onto the podium as she stood before a crowd of people. They were mumbling from one person to another, discussing different things about her. Mostly they where directed on making her look like some sort of criminal.
But she guessed she was now.
A bright light had averted its attention to her and she had to shield her eyes to allow herself to see. A loud booming sound ricocheted throughout the room, silencing all conversations at hand.
"Fate, you have presented yourself before the court on the highest offense to immortal and man…" Fate's mind slowly drifted away from his speech as her eyes drifted to a crying woman in a chair across the hall. Hades wife, Persephone, sat with her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking violently as the boss man continued discussing the murder. Fate never did understand why Persephone was a higher being…she didn't do anything. Fate silently wished that she wasn't here and, as if she had heard her wish, Persephone let out a loud sob and ran out of the room.
No one seemed to notice.
"….bringing us to were we are now. Anything that may be important to the trial is now open for discussion." Fate stood silent as many of the crowd began to shout out things about her, most of them not true. Something about this rang a bell in her head and she smiled slowly. It was true.
People would never be truly happy unless they had a scapegoat.
"This had better be good" Kaiba sighed in irritation as he leaned against a park tree, waiting for whoever had sent that blasted email and virus. Obviously, someone wanted to speak to him bad enough to ruin his computer, and trying everything that he knew to destroy the virus, decided to follow the orders of the letter sender. Now he stood outside, fog seeming to appear from nowhere and slowly obscuring his view as he waited.
He wouldn't have to wait long. He could make out two more figures approaching from the other direction and he quickly straightened himself to see…
"Wheeler, Yami, what are you doing here? Are you the ones who sent that email?" Joey muttered under his breath.
"I should be asking you the same thing Money-bags" Kaiba felt a bit hurt on having to go back to the old name calling but it didn't last long.
"You have no command of me Wheeler. Now be a good idiot and run off." Kaiba and Joey looked ready to attack, Yami watching the whole thing, highly uninterested if they killed each other. There went his problems, right?
"ENOUGH!" All three jumped at the sudden outburst from no one. Slowly, the fog wisped to the center and swirled around before a bright light blinded them all momentarily and a woman was left standing there, Yugi tightly grasping her hand. "There is no need for this useless bickering."
Aphrodite glared at them, one at a time, before flipping a strand of hair behind her shoulder and continuing. "Mind telling me why you're so pissed off at one another?"
"Because he's an ass" Joey pointed rudely at Kaiba who just huffed and looked the other way.
"And your nothing but a worthless piece of trash" Yami sighed as the two started bickering again. Aphrodite glared at him.
"And why don't you they and stop them?" Yami shrugged.
"If they kill each other, it be a plus" Kaiba rounded on Yami.
"Oh get off your throne Mr. High and Mighty. I pretty sure the world would be better without you."
"Well I'm sure somebody would rethink committing suicide when they heard you died!"
"I didn't even want to see you"
"Well you probably should have thought about that before you sent that infected email!"
"STOP IT!" They all turned to see Yugi there, still holding Aphrodite's hand. "Your acting like four year olds. I sent you that infected file so I could get you out here to TALK not bicker." Aphrodite smiled down at Yugi before looking at the others.
"Tell me, why do you hate each other so? Is there a reason?" The truth was, there really wasn't a very good reason other than what Hermes said. "Have you even listened to your heart at all? Yugi has, why haven't you?" They blinked.
Why hadn't they?
Yugi slowly slipped his hand away from Aphrodite and approached Yami, peering at him silently before kissing him. Joey's mouth nearly fell open and Kaiba just raised a brow. Yugi pulled away.
"Tell me that didn't feel right? Tell me, and I'll leave for good, I won't bother you ever again." Yami just looked at Yugi for a moment before smiling and hugging him. Aphrodite smiled and turned towards Joey and Kaiba.
"You see? You all still care for each other. Fate didn't trick any of you at all. Hermes just wanted to cause a ruckus before he left and leave me to clean it up. He really needs to grow up" She glared up at the sky for a moment before looking back down at the two. They where all sort of looking at each other.
Joey broke into a smile. "We could all live at my place?" Laughter followed as Kaiba shook his head.
"Not likely. I don't think we'd all fit." Joey flicked Kaiba in the nose.
"Oh so we'll all live with you! Great idea Seto." Kaiba glared down at Joey before a small smile graced his face.
"I know." Yugi sighed at this and shook his head in Yami's chest.
"Now that that's over with, there's still one more thing we need to do" They all looked at Aphrodite. "And I'm going to need all of your help for this."
"So Fate's been framed for a crime she didn't commit and if found guilty she'll be put through one of the worst death's ever?" Joey shook his head. "But she wouldn't' be able to feel it would she? You said yourself she couldn't do that." Aphrodite sighed.
"More than likely, they'll let her have her feelings back during that time so she can experience pain and grief. I really hate how our system works." Kaiba was the one who had remained silent the whole time and just now decided to add his two cents worth.
"If Fate's innocent, than who killed Hades and why? Even if we do rescue her from her demise, they'll still come after us and more than likely, we'll meet the same Fate as Fate…no pun intended." He added as an after thought. "The point is where going to need proof to show that she's innocent…that or we find the real killer."
Aphrodite nodded. "Precisely which means where going to need to work fast. We'll head to Hades place. It's been banned from everyone but since no ones around, they won't be able to stop us from looking."
"One question. How do we get up there?" Joey pointed to the sky as Aphrodite smiled devilishly.
"Oh, that's the fun part."
"Remind me to never do that again." Joey was leaning against the wall next to Hades room, wheezing as he pulled away from Aphrodite. It felt like he had just been sucked into a vacuum cleaner, his ears popping and body being painfully pressed from all directions. And when he says all directions, he means all direction!
Aphrodite swiftly pulled the door open as the others let go of her, more looks of sickness etched on their faces, and stepped inside. "Come on, we have no time to dawdle." She flipped on the light switch and led the way.
Clothes scattered the floor, mostly all leather products, drawers hung from there dressers, hangers scattering the inside of the closet. It would be hell finding anything useful in this place.
"Right. The murder was committed in this room but evidence could be anywhere. Kaiba, you take the kitchen, Joey, the bedroom, Yugi, the living room, Yami, the bathroom, and I'll check the closets." And off they went.
Joey wasn't having much luck among the old food wrappers and dirty underwear, which he decided not to touch. This guy was even more of a slob than he was and that's saying something. Yugi and Yami and both already checked there places more than twice and had decided to switch in case the other may have missed something while Aphrodite pulled herself from a pile of junk that had fallen on top of her.
Kaiba, on the other hand, was having the worst luck. Even though the kitchen was neater than the rest of the house, most of the clues had already been taken away. After awhile of searching he grew tired and flopped on a kitchen chair.
Clank.
Raising a brow, he slowly looked down and saw a bottle of cyanide roll out from under the chair. Standing, he picked up the bottle and flipped the chair over. Notes were stuck to the bottom of the chair along with pictures of what he assumed was what Hades looked like up close and a few pictures of Fate with her face scratched out. One picture stuck out the most. He pulled it out from under the chair and looked at it better.
A little girl was hugging onto Hades, smiling out of happiness, flowers in her hair. Hades was beckoning a young red haired woman over. But the picture still held signs of mutilation. The little girl hair, for example, had been markered in with red pen, making her look a bit more like the woman to the side. Hades was no longer beckoning the other for his hand had been x'ed out and the words "True Family" had been scribbled across the top.
"Guys, I found something." The others didn't take long to arrive. He handed the photo over to Aphrodite as she strolled in. "Do you recognize this?" Aphrodite looked at it in shock.
"I took that picture and gave it to…my god, I knew she was jealous of Fate and mutilated this but after we had that discussion I thought she got rid of it…I didn't think…that-"
"What? Didn't think that I would try and kill them?" They all turned to see…..
LefthandedFreak: And here I go leaving you off on a cliff.
Joey: Wait, huh? I'm confused.
LefthandedFreak: Don't worry! All shall be revealed! But can anyone figure it out! Let's see! Read and Review!