Team Zero: Orichalcos

Chapter 20: Shadowed Rays of Light

Chime sat alone in her motel room the Kaiba Corporation were providing for the duelists during the tournament. Siting at the end of a bed provided to her she sat alone in the dark room. The sun was setting outsider her window but she still had the binds closed.

"Soon enough the soul container will have enough soul power to drive what I want." She said flopping back on her bed, her long light green hair flopped back to all sides of her. "Then I can pick up what he couldn't. Even if he was a fool he did have the right idea."

Smiling, she slid to the end of the bed and flipped herself onto her feet. Smiling she started to walk towards the bathroom of the room she was in.

"Hygin and Archip won't be back for a while. They are dealing with capturing the souls of the teams that have lost this first round." She said closing the bathroom door. Reaching in the built in shower to the room, she turned the nobs so that water came bursting out of the shower faucet. A smile crossed her lips as she thought of her plan. "The souls are what I need. The souls of strong duelists."

Her robe and other articles of clothing fell to the tile floor as the fogged glass door to the show slid shut.

Order, followed by the group of children, walked into the large golden room. In almost a second though, Order stopped suddenly being run into from the back by the unsuspecting kids. Losing balance Order fell to the floor.

"You ok?" Kevin asked reaching down to help her up.

"Yes I am fine. But no I must inform you all," Order sighed as she looked around the group. "Ten thousand years ago, the ultimate force fell to this planet. Breaking into chunks as it flew through our atmosphere it created what you now wield, the crystal cards." She said as each one in the room pulled out a card from either a pocket, deck box, or deck. Order, reaching into her robe, also pulled out the Amber Crystal.

"Yea?" Ronin said wanting her to continue. As her eyes fell to the floor she began to talk.

"A large chunk of the ultimate force the broke off didn't fall into the Dominion of the Beast. It fell to Earth, and into the hands of a man by the name of Dartz. This part of the crystal became known as the Orichalcos Stone."

"Orichalcos!" The group gave the unison reply. All but Usami looked down at the Crystal card they were still holding.

"So that is why they seem to be so similar." Reku said remembering his duel with Dorun.

"Yes." Order nodded to him. "They seem to be the same because they were once one and the same. As I have told you before, each chunk began to develop their own powers. You know very well your crystals' powers plus what the power of the Orichalcos can do." Getting nods from all of them she continued. "Dartz tried to use this power to revive a Leviathan to rid the world of its 'evil' people." Order made quotation marks with her fingers as she spoke. "Luckily a brave Pharaoh locked up Dartz and his Leviathan."

"Yea, Chime did talk about a guy named Dartz and a Leviathan when she and Kaiba were yelling at each other." Reku said remembering back to the conversation.

/Flashback/

"Hey, you!" Kaiba yelled and walked over to where Team Orichalcos was now standing. Everyone in the crowd and remaining teams were completely silent and still. "Who do you think you are?" He yelled in there faces.

"We know who we are. We are going to save the world." Chime said calmly without flinching at Kaiba's screams. "And Kaiba honey, you could use a breath mint."

"Shut up, I am not going to let you ruin this tournament just because you want to use the Leviathan to..."

"Kaiba honey, who said anything about a Leviathan?" Chime asking interrupting the businessperson. "We want to use the souls captured for a much more powerful thing that what that idiot Dartz wanted to use them for. The Leviathan is gone thank to you people." Chime was starting to raise her voice. "No, we seek a much bigger target, a much bigger gem stone if you will." She said looking over her shoulder at Team Zero and Team Striker. She smiled wickedly sending chills down their spines./

/End Flashback/

"Wait!" Akina's eyes widened. "She said she was after a bigger gem stone. Could she be referring to the Ultimate Crystal?"

"Sadly I know she is after it." Order's tone dropped to being even sadder and dark. "She has the same stupid ideas as her father."

Hygin-4000 LP
Rhea-0 LP

The blond haired girl wearing a yellow vest and a white T-shirt fell to the ground as the large green circle of the Orichalcos trapped her and sent a large green laser into the darkening sky.

Smiling, Hygin walked away from the three lifeless bodies of Team Trap 'um lying on the grass behind the hotel where they were staying. Counting off on his fingers he mentally tallied off the souls. "Ok, I took out Team Trap 'um, Team Ling, and Team Neon. I also finished up Team Gold after I locked their captain away. Archip should be finishing up with his group too. So he had Team Blitz, Team Curses, Team Atom and Team Skateboarders." He said aloud rounding the corner to see his team mate walking towards him.

"Done on my end. How bout you?" Archip asked stopping by his team mate.

"Yep, their all taken care of." Hygin smirked.

Stretching out his arms, Ryokurio admired the night air. Standing in front of the hotel he looked around at the peaceful lawn of the hotel. "Real nice place. Too bad neither of those teams are in their rooms." He sighed looking down. He had come to the hotel to catch up with Team Zero and Team Striker but they weren't in their rooms. "Oh well, might as well head back to our own...hotel..." His voice trailing off as he heard laughter coming from around the corner of the hotel. Acting out of curiosity he slowly edged over to the corner and peeked around. Seeing the two members of Team Orichalcos standing there laughing.

"Yea, now we need to get the souls of the rest of these fools and we should have enough for Chime to do what she wants with them." Hygin said to his partner.

"Miss Chime should be pleased with our accomplishments." Archip grinned back.

"So you captured the souls of all the duelists that lost in this tournament?" Ryokurio said coming around the corner. The two men jumped at the surprise of him being there. Taking a more confident stance, Hygin cleared his throat.

"Why yes we did." A wicked smile crossed his face.

"Why are you doing this?" Ryokurio questioned stopping about ten feet away from the two of them.

"Because our master Chime orders it to be so." Archip chimed in answering Ryokurio's question.

"What will she do with all these souls?" Ryokurio asked in a more demanding voice.

"That is not for a whelp like you to know." Hygin said holding up his hand. He started to sweep it across the air like a human does to a dog. "Go away."

"No." His stance firm, Ryokurio stood his ground. "But how bout this. I challenge you to a duel, either one of you. I win, you answer all my questions, got it?" Ryokurio asked cocking an eyebrow to the two of them.

"You knew her father?" Joe asked Order to her last comment.

"Sadly I do. I also know who her mother was." Order's head was bowed in shame.

"Who was it?" Reku asked, as him and the rest of the kids leaned forward towards Order.

"Her mother was..." Order's head rose, tears streaming down her face. "me."

"YOU!" Ronin yelled out. Everyone was already surprised at what Order had said, then Ronin's outburst jerked them all to the side away from him. Calming down, Ronin ignored the glares he was getting from the others. "But that would make Chaos her father."

"Yes, sadly, he is." Order said looking at the group who was now over their little heart attack that Ronin invoked. "Me and Chuck had two kids in total. The eldest child, Chime, and a younger boy who is living with family now. His grandfather takes care of him. But Chime herself was very envious of Chuck. She didn't like that he wanted to rid the world of free thought, and that included her. She was a damn spoiled child."

"Yea, we can see that." Joe grumbled out from the back of the group.

"So to get her revenge she tried to interfere with her fathers plans. For that, he blasted her with Shadow Magic. This stole her of that darkness inside her, she couldn't use her fathers original gift against him anymore." Order looked slightly upwards, over the group. "So she went in search of a power that could stop her father. Finding it in a man named Dartz."

"So what happened to Dartz and how did Chime get control of the power?" Kevin asked from his spot next to Joe.

"At the time, she was placed with a team working for Dartz as behind the scenes soul suckers. The Pharaoh and his friends never met this group. Chime, Archip, Dorun, and Hygin. Once the brave Pharaoh defeated Dartz he was taken out of command and out of the picture. Finally gathering enough force and planning out a counter attack, Chime took over as leader of the group. She commanded that the power of the Orichalcos that they all held be used to serve her in getting what she wanted."

"So she took over and was going to attack her father to take him out." Akina said thinking about it.

"Yes, but you got to him first. Defeating and killing him, you just made her job easier. I didn't even think of her when all that mess was going on. I had actually forgotten about her completely." Order sighed looking down at them again. "Now she wants enough souls to do the same plan that her father had started. Wipe out human thoughts and the weak. Make super warriors to serve her while she ruled this planet."

Chime walked out of the bathroom, a large towel wrapped around her entire slender body. Another one wrapped up in her hair. Walking through the room she pulled the window blind back and looked out at the sun as its rays of lights were disappearing behind the horizon.

"Darkness." She smiled. "Tearing the light away to cover everything in the black of night. Opening the door to the monsters that lurk about in shadows. The end of Chaos, the rise of the Orichalcos." Turning, she slowly walked back across the room. "Enough souls have been gathered here at this one tournament, the irony that Kaiba helped put this all together. He fought so hard before to get rid of the Orichalcos, now he is just pushing us to our goal."

Walking into the bathroom again she closed the door. A few minutes passed by and she emerged again dressed in her white robe laced with black and green. The symbol of the Orichalcos sewed into the back of it. Pulling the towel out from her hair, it flopped down. Smiling she walked back over to the window and gazed at how dark it was without the sun. She was about to walk away but she noticed Archip and Hygin standing below her window by a couple of stories.

"Aw, my two lackeys." She said pleased with since they appeared to be done with their task. That is when she noticed Ryokurio advancing towards them. "Someone wishes to challenge them?"

"Your best bet is to use the power of your crystals to stop Chime and her power of the Orichalcos." Order said to the group of seven. "Usami, you will just have to be careful if you are to face it." She said to the girl standing with her two team mates.

"But not even the crystals can stand up to that power." Akina said looking down at the Amber Crystal in Order's hand still.

"Yes they can, but not only do you need their power but you need to be extremely powerful duelists. They all have talent to overcome obstacles in about any situations. These will be the toughest duels that you will ever have to fight." Order responded to Akina, tightening her grip on the crystal card she held in her hand. "Their skills are very impress, but then again so are all of yours. I don't think that half of the people in this world could have dueled as impressively as you all have."

"We just need to stop Chime and her plan. It was bad enough when Chaos tried to do it." Reku groaned. "But he at least didn't do it so openly. This tournament is being broadcast all over the world, and she is practically announcing her plans to everyone."

"Yea." Getting nods from the rest of them.

"We can win though." Reku said pulling out another card from his deck box. Holding it up next to his first he looked at the two crystal cards he was holding. "Chaos tried to break apart our power with this Onyx Crystal, but we overpowered his evil with our bond."

"We can only do this by working together." Kevin said putting his hand on Reku's shoulder.

"Like last time." Ronin threw in.

"Right." Reku said nodding and smiling to the two of them. "We can do it."

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Ok, new order of buisness. Ryokurio is about to duel, but who? That is what I want to know. So who do you want to see face Ryokurio? Hygin's Element Deck or Archip's Fiends. I know I have asked which one you liked better, now I want to know which one you wan tot see duel the Phantom dragon duelist. Onto reveiwer responces. Quite a few of them this time. Oh and yea, I have been working quite a bit on my Last Guard of the Spirits which is why I haven't been updating this one.

To John: Yep very evil. But Kuriboh is awsome, no doubt about it. About Big O, I guess it will just rust away?

To LucienShadowMaster: Yea, thanks. I do think that it made sense.

To Ryuenjin the Dragon Fire Blade: Ok, I have been thinking about this for a long time...and I still can't figure out who you are. I don't recall emailing anyone about my story so I am at a loss. Please get in contact with me and tell me.

To Vyser Adept of Dragons: We shall find out soon who is facing who next. Trust me, it will be interesting to say the least.

To Gate Guardian32: Yes, that is what i was hoping it would do. Surpise and amaze you. And now you know about Chime.

To Timaeus the Golden: Yea, I have talked to you about your character. But thank you, I do think that I have become far better than when I first started writing my story. I am still growing to as a writer.

To BlackHornet19: yea, if you want to email him to me, I guess I could find a place to slip him in. He may not last long but then again I am wrapping my Team Zero series down.
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