Conclusion to Apocalyptic Revelations
DISCLAIMER AND NOTE:I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, Konami does. All original characters and monsters are copyright me.I completely forgot my account for this site. As much as I would hate to do this, but I'm wrapping up the Apocalyptic Revelations stories, answering all the questions and showing the plot.
The Archknights
In the last chapter, Gen Iruka said he was an Archknight and Jolie Marthis freaked out. In the next chapter, Gen was to tell everyone the origin of the Archknights and their purpose against the Lilim. They are people who are under the protection of a certain monster that they entrust, to Gen this is the Red-Eyes. Their mission is to kill the Lilim before awakening Lilith by defeating them in a Shadow Duel. Killing the Lilim would erase all traces of their demon. It turns out that the Superior of the Archknights sent Gen to find Mai those five years ago after Lilith's defeat. Bakura believes that the Archknights were destroyed during Lilith's reign, Gen begs to differ. They were in hiding, waiting for the right time to strike. The duel against Jolie made them visible now. Talk is over as a plan to reach the Crystal Gates begins.
The Crystal Gates
This was where Lilith was sealed away in the first place in the Hikarizuishou. Toorima drops a wounded Ayana before the gates, hoping they will open on their own before a Lilim. It turns out they will only open if all eight Lilim have united. In his blind rage, Toorima and his Yami attack Ayana, but Ayana finally fights back. She touches her former best friend's head and fills him with images that would drive even the most sanest person insane. Marik's reincarnation starts to freak out, going into convulsions, etc. Afterwards, a duel disk mysterious appears on Ayana's arm. A Shadow Duel is beginning, Ayana discovering her true power. Toorima is freaked out, he can't bring out his Yami to duel Ayana. He continues to get sick as the duel begins. Before too long, Toorima has enough strength to summon Slifer the Sky Dragon. Ayana is not afraid as she finally summons her Lilim servant, Hecate the Dark Witch (12/3500/2800) through the Dark Moon Ritual. Slifer's effect kicks in and drains Hecate of 2000 ATK. Ayana doesn't seem to care as she uses Hecate's ability, which is to gain 500 ATK for every card in both player's graveyards. Doing so make Hecate more powerful than Slifer could ever be. With a final shot from Hecate's magical powers, Slifer is destroyed and Toorima is defeated. Ayana takes Slifer for her own, then uses her true power to have Toorima tortured by images of slaughter, pestilence, and destruction. She walks up to the Crystal Gates and waits for her brethren to come to her.
It isn't long beforeGen is able to pull a few strings with a United States Air Force jet squad (the captain being an Archknight), a jet for each that fits two people in (one for Kaiba and Serenity, one for Bakura and Bi, one for Mai and Gen, and one for Jolie and Zelda). Each jet is on auto-pilot, sending them straight to their destination. As they reach the gates, Jolie is the first to notice that Toorima is in shock. Ayana tells them what she has done and tosses to her Lilim brethren the final God Card, Obelisk. The eight Lilim have gathered, doing so has the dangerous Black Death cat-familiar appear. It opens the gate and brings the Lilim inside. In the events of them traversing the gates, the Yamizuishou has shattered, Lilith is free.
Lilith and the Labyrinth
To everyone's surprise, Lilith has taken the form of Tea, except in an Arcaic attire. She tells her children that she doesn't desire all eight of them, but only one of them will be chosen to help her create a new world. She sets up a labyrinth within the gates and she makes a rule that if someone comes across another Lilim that they must battle. It's the rule. What Lilith doesn't realize is that Gen has stuck into the labyrinth. He is going to fulfill his purpose as an Archknight to kill the Lilim now. In the labyrinth, he comes across Zelda. He tells her that it's his job to exterminate the Lilim and a Shadow Duel begins. Gen has the upperhand with his Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon on the field, Zelda with her strongest monster, Puck the Dark Harlequin (7/2800/2600). Without any delay, Zelda is able to summon Chemosh the Death Knight (12/1200/2000) with the Death Knight Ritual. His ability is to drain half of its opponent's life points and half of Zelda's to increase in ATK. Doing so has Chemosh powerful than the Red-Eyes and destroying it. The result is Gen's duel disk shattering and the shadows consuming his soul. Before he dies, he tells Zelda to tell Mai that he didn't mean to hurt her. As Zelda walks away, she can hear Gen's body burning into ash. She can't help but cry after what she had done.
Jolie meets with Ayana once again, their Shadow Duel beginning. However, before their duel officially begins, Ayana uses her powers to give Jolie mental trauma about the shadows, making her scared. Jolie is too scared to fight now, but has to or die. The duel is fierce and Jolie almost wins, but Ayana summons both Hecate and Slifer to the field. Before their attacks can hit Jolie she dies of a heart attack. With that, her body disintegrates into ash. Lolth has been set freed into Lilith's company.
Bi meets with Mai and the two must reluctantly duel in a Shadow Duel. Both Lilim are going at it good, summoning both Trakhisis and Morgion. During the duel, both Lilim servants are destroyed, resulting in Bi and Mai using their regular monsters. In the end, the result comes in as Bi uses her Archangel Knight to deliver the final blow to Mai. Bi cries as she hugs her idol, telling her that she didn't want to do it. Mai calls Bi Ishizu and embraces her as her body disintegrates. Bi starts to break down in tears as she hold onto the ashes that were once Mai.
Kaiba and Serenity are forced into a duel themselves, the debut of both Zeboim the Dark Sea (12/2500/2000) and Sirrion theFlowing Flame (12/unknown/unknown). Zeboim's effect is that Serenity has the choice of sacrificing everymonster in her hand, graveyard, and deck to empower Zeboim and decrease Sirrion's ATK. Sirrion's effect is that he gains the same ATK and DEF as the monsters used to summon him, which were Kaiba's three Blue-Eyes. Serenity is about to defeat Kaiba when Kaiba uses his Ring of Destruction and Wheel of Defense, destroying Sirrion and defeating Serenity. Serenity whispers Joey's name as her body disintegrates. Showing signs of a true psycho, Kaiba doesn't weep for Serenity's death.
Bakura can sense that Morgion, Zeboim,and Lolthare free, only five Lilim remain. It is then that he sees Zelda crying over the death of Gen. He doesn't want to duel her, his only mission is to defeat Kaiba for what he did to Ayana. Zelda runs over to him and says that she wants to help take Kaiba down. The two traverse the labyrinth as best they can and meet Kaiba. A two-on-one fight occurs, all three of the servants are out. However, during the fight, Kaiba uses Sirrion to defeat Zelda, killing her. Chemosh is free. Bakura despises Kaiba even more and their duel continues. In the end, Kaiba is defeated by Bakura, his body disintegrates after he calls out to Mokuba with a tear in his eye. Only three Lilim remained now: Bi, Ayana, and Bakura.
Settling the Score
Ayana and Bi meet within the labyrinth, Bi telling Ayana that she doesn't want to fight her at all. She tells Ayana that they and Bakura could team up and kill Lilith like Bakura had planned. Ayana doesn't want to as she inflicts her mental pain powers on Bi. It's not working on Bi, though. The two fight one-on-one, flashbacks of the duel between Ishizu and Tea entering their minds. Bi yells at Ayana, calling her Tea, that she will not forgive her. Ayana calls Bi Ishizu as they curse each other. The fight between the two continues, both servants out. In a last attempt, Ayana uses the trap, Final Battle, to see which servant will be victorious. The two demons charge and as the smoke clears, Hecate is left standing. Bi chokes as she says to the heavens and Mai that she's sorry she couldn't stop this chaos from happening. Her body disintegrates and Trakhisis is set free.
It isn't long before Bakura and Ayana meet in the center of the labyrinth where Lilith had predicted they would be. Bakura tells Ayana not to fall into Lilith's hands but she doesn't care anymore. She tries her mental pain powers on Bakura but they don't work either. The shadow duel begins. At first it seemed like a battle of the Lilim, but the servants are destroyed. Ayana summons Slifer while Bakura summons Ra. The battle of the Gods start, destroying the labyrinth. In the end, both Gods are destroyed. Ayana results in using Dark Paladin while Bakura just summons three fiends to the field. Unaware of Bakura's plan, Ayana sees Bakura summon Obelisk. With his appearance, Ayana's paladin dies. She won't give up this duel. The two continue to duel and Obelisk is destroyed. This results in Bakura summoning Dark Necrofear for back up reasons as well as summoning the Destiny Board. To his surprise, Ayana summons Black Death, allowing it to die to summon Lilith to her field. Instead of her usual faceless winged demon self, she is in the form of Tea. This starts to screw with Bakura mind now. He can't possibly continue on, knowing he'll have to kill the woman he loves. Ayana says to Bakura, her voice changing to Tea's, "If you do not want to kill me, Bakura, you shouldn't have dragged me into this situation. It's all YOUR fault!" With that, Lilith zaps Bakura and kills him. Before Bakura disintegrates, Ayana plants a kiss on his lips, letting him go in peace.
Face Your Destiny
Ayana is out of the labyrinth, her Lilim brethren set free. With that Lilith embraces Ayana and consumes her into her body. The destruction of the world is now at hand. Within Ayana, she sees herself in a peaceful garden, the other Lilim are there as well. She is scared, wondering why they are there. Each Lilim tries to talk Ayana into breaking free from her "mother" and setting the world free. To her amazement, people like Yugi, Joey, and everyone else who had died in the first Lilith uprising appears, trying to talk her into breaking free from the chains of fate. It is her destiny to choose the world's fate. Ayana doesn't want to hear it and yells out to Lilith to destroy everyone and everything. Her mother hears her cries and proceeds with the second uprising. Toorima, outside the gates, still in fear, can feel the end is near and doesn't want to die by Lilith's hands, so he throws himself off the icy cliffs and into the ocean below, drowning himself. Before he dies, he is embraced by an angel that resembles Ayana who takes him into the afterlife.
The whole world knows that the world is going to end. One-by-one, the people are reduced to ashes, each one crying tears of either joy or anguish. However, Ayana is seeing and feeling each and every person's sorrows. She can't believe this is happening to the people she once cared for. With that, she breaks free from Lilith's body. Doing so results in Lilith mutating into a hideous demon. As Lilith's true form is revealed, the Crystal Gates shatter and an outer space-like battlefield is formed, fire surrounding the two. The final duel will begin.
What is unfair to Ayana is that Lilith is summoning each Lilim servant, each one having the chosen Lilim's soul placed within them. If Ayana is to defeat Lilith, she has to kill her brethren again. Summoning Hecate makes Ayana place her soul into her servant. If Hecate dies, so will Ayana. It is time to fulfill a prophecy. Ayana is able to get two other Lilim servants on her field, the Twilight Dragon and Trahkisis. Doing so, she uses Polymerization to form Kiri-Jolith the Sword of Justice (12/5000/5000). Ayana takes the sword in arms and uses it ability to drain all but 1 LP to destroy all of Lilith's monsters. Lilith is shocked by this and Ayana runs the beast through with the sacred sword. Lilith changed back into Tea, not the Archaic one, but regular Tea. She looks at her "daughter" andthanks her as her body disintegrates.
Ayana appears in a ruined planet Earth outside the Crystal Gates. The smell of decay and fire feels the air. She has caused this destruction. She starts to hear the voices of each Lilim speaking to her about how she changed the destiny of mankind and that everyone she knows and cares for will return if she allows it. Ayana notices she still has Kiri-Jolith in her hand and she knows this sword can change destiny. With that, she stabs herself with it and falls into the sea below her. Before she dies, Ayana says to herself and the people she destroyed, "I want a world in which everyone is still here. No Lilth, no Lilim, nothing. Everything was just the same as it was. Let my wish be granted." As she finishes, her body disintegrates.
The End?
The sound of an alarm clock is heard as Ayana wakes up in a strange looking room. She doesn't remember anything at all. She steps outside this room to see Tea and Bakura speaking to one another. She then addresses them as mother and father. After a little talk, Ayana steps outside and sees everything is alive and well. Yugi had gotten married to Rebecca, Mai to Joey, Tristan to Serenity, Kaiba to Ishizu (WHOA, WHAT!), Mordecai to Cherub, Marik to Vivian Wong, and Sylvia (Jolie's former self if you remember) to Leon (yes, the same Leon from the KC). Each one gave birth to a child: Toorima (Marik and Vivian), Gen (Mai and Joey), Toriyama (Serenity and Tristan), Bi (Kaiba and Ishizu), Zelda (Mordecai and Cherub), and Jolie (Sylvia and Leon).
As Ayana walks down the street, she bumps into someone.
"Sorry, miss, didn't see ya there. I'm kind of in a rush." the person says.
"It's okay." Ayana replies. She looks up to see a young man with black hair slicked back into a curved spike. His eyes were a dark blue and he wore a traditional Japanese school boy uniform, but it was white. Ayana looked at this young man with stars in her eyes.
"Are you alright?" the man asked.
"I'm... I'm fine..." she mutters. "I'm Ayana..."
"Oh? I didn't ask your name, but it's my pleasure to know it. Since you introduced yourself, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Misawa... Daichi Misawa."
Ho boy, foreshadowing of a future story? Maybe. Reviews would be nice, but no flaming.