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Yugi: Wow Yami Seirei are you on a writing marathon or something?
Yami Seirei: Well I don't know it would seem so haha!
Chapter 12
The black mass hovered above Seto and Jou threateningly and they both stood rooted to the spot still carrying their fallen friends.
"You have the whole world to destroy, why bother with us?" Jou said bravely. The black mass paused as if considering this before glowering down at them again.
"Well I'm going to destroy the world anyway I might as well start with you two."
Seto glanced to the side of him to see if there was anything he could see to help them, anything, he didn't care what it was. His eyes fell on the stone tablet containing the seven Millennium Items. Their power was great he knew and he wished he could figure out what to do.
As he looked at the items, one of them stood out to him more than the rest. This one was shaped like a rod with one end finishing in a ball with what looked to him like wings on either side of it.
The black mass was getting gradually closer as if delaying their end to make their fear as great as possible.
Seto laid Atemu's body on the ground gently and stood up. He was not all that far from the stone tablet and had a feeling he could make it. Somehow he knew that if he could just reach that Rod Item then he could at least try and do something about their situation.
The black mass looked as if it was about to pounce on them both when he suddenly dived to the side and grabbed onto the tablet.
He could hear the roar of the black mass as it realised what had happened and could feel it coming towards him at an alarming rate. With a strength he didn't know he had, he pulled himself up and grabbed the Rod in his hand. He turned just in time to see Jou about to be devoured by the black mass. He had thought it was behind him but instead it had gone after Jou.
"Seto help me!" Jou yelled as he saw his doom approaching him. He cowered on the ground hugging both Yugi and Atemu's bodies to himself.
"NO!" Seto yelled and walked forwards the Rod held out in front of him. He had no idea what would happen but he hoped something would and for some strange reason he felt as though the Rod was a part of him.
"You think to challenge me mortal?" the black mass demanded.
"Yes." Seto said defiantly.
"Then you shall be the first to die fool." It said and zoomed towards him.
Just as it was about to strike, Seto felt an enormous amount of power surging through him and down his arm to the Rod. It glowed white hot though he felt no heat. Suddenly a beam of pure white light shot through the end and into the sky. The black mass looked up suddenly afraid. Who was this mortal to wield such power?
The beam of light stopped in the sky and began to fill out and form into the shape of a huge dragon. Seto watched in amazement, as the dragon became as real as he was.
The dragon flew up into the clouded sky and then back down again to land gracefully by the side of Seto.
'I am here Master Seth to do your bidding.' The dragon said telepathically. Seto stared at the dragon in surprise wondering how it was able to speak into his mind.
'You called me Seth?' He asked in his mind wondering if he was doing it right.
'Yes you are the High Priest Seth. I see you are dressed a little different to what I am used to though.'
'A high priest?' Seto thought to himself but there was no time for him to fully ponder everything, he had to save Jou and escape back to his home and maybe they could work out a way to destroy the black mass before it destroyed everything.
"Stay away from Jou." Seto said advancing on the black mass with the Rod out in front of him.
The black mass laughed. "What? Are you and your little pet going to stop me?"
At the word 'pet' the dragon next to Seth bristled in anger and snorted stamping his feet.
'Let me deal with him master.' He growled and Seto nodded thinking that at least he had tried.
With a snort and a growl the huge dragon charged the black mass and they flew through the air away from Jou to crash into the hillside some way away. A titanic struggle ensued where as Seto and Jou watched in wonder, dragon and black mass rolled and leaped and fought each other. The dragon blowing white fire and the black mass shooting bolts of darkness from itself as it had no hands as such.
The fight went on for what seemed like an eternity until it looked as if the dragon was finally tiring, it seemed the black mass was winning.
'Help me master, use the Rod and banish him back into the portal from where he came, I cannot do it alone.'
Seto stood and held the rod back behind him. With a cry he flung it forwards but didn't let go and felt power surging through him like a torrent. It felt ten times more powerful than it had when he summoned the dragon and he hit the black mass right in the middle.
With a roar of anguish and pain, the black mass shot towards the portal and vanished into it screaming like a banshee. The portal closed shut behind it and the items on the tablet ceased their bright light, returning to a much softer glow.
The dragon flew down and landed in front of Seto who was gasping after all the power that had surged through him.
Jou stood up and looked at his boyfriend.
"Seto…" he gasped at a loss for words as he looked at the CEO.
"What?" Seto asked as Jou continued to stare at him open mouthed.
"Your clothes." He managed at last and Seto looked down at himself wondering what on earth Jou was talking about. What he saw made him gasp out loud.
He was dressed in some sort of long gown, it was blue in colour and had a distinct Egyptian look to it.
"But how?" he said in wonder and felt his head as it suddenly felt heavier than it should have done. He felt the head dress there and was about to ask the dragon what on earth was going on when a brilliant light surrounded them all and they looked up to see what was causing it.
A beam of light was coming down from the sky and in it a staircase had formed. As Seto, Jou and the dragon watched, several figures began to walk down the staircase to where the three were.
"Greetings mortal." One of the figures said whose face shone like the brightest sun. "I am Ra, god of the sun and I have come down to thank you for ridding the world of those two unworthy ones."
Jou and Seto dropped onto their knees and bowed their heads in the presence of the gods and the dragon lowered his head also.
"Rise high priest Seth." Ra said and Seto stood up. "You have questions I see, please ask what you wish to know."
Unsure how to address a god, Seto bowed again and said,
"My lord, forgive my but I don't know why this dragon or you have addressed me as 'high priest Seth' or where these clothes came from."
Ra nodded in understanding.
"My son, three thousand years ago you were high priest to the Pharaoh of Egypt, in fact the vary Pharaoh who lies over there." He said indicating Atemu's body. "His soul was split into two when he was reincarnated but yours remains whole and as such you were able to use your weapon of that time, the Millennium Rod, to destroy the evil threatening this world."
Seto struggled to take it all in. So he was the reincarnation of a priest called Seth who lived three thousand years ago? The thought was mind blowing but he had seen enough wonders in this night so why should this not be true?
"My lord," he continued "If you knew that this might happen, why is it that you didn't do anything about it yourself?" He bowed his head low wondering if he had gone too far asking a god why he couldn't do something after all, he was a god and who was he to question his motives?
Ra smiled down on Seto as he was a very tall god even in human form.
"My son, alas we could not deal with Iria and Michael as their punishment was for then to remain immortals but be trapped on the earth so we could not touch them but you however managed to defeat them. We came down to thank you and also to offer you one wish in return."
Seto looked at Jou and they both immediately knew what they wanted to wish for.
"I wish for my friends to be alive again my lord." Seto said and bowed low.
"As you wish my son." Ra said and walked over to where Atemu and Yugi's bodies were lying.
"Rise my children, appear again as the pharaoh you both once were."
The two bodies raised up and were suspended in the air, a light came down the staircase and hovered over them. It shivered a little and split into two one entering Atemu and the other into Yugi. As the group on the hill watched, The sarongs round their waists vanished and were replaced and both boys were dressed in the robes of a Pharaoh. Yugi's was white and Atemu's was black. Golden winged crowns appeared on their heads and round their necks appeared a puzzle, one each.
The two figures sank until their feet were touching the ground and their eyes opened.
They blinked and looked round them. They saw Seto in his priests robes and nodded somehow understanding perfectly why their best friend was dressed so strangely. Then they saw Ra standing to the side of them and both bowed low to him.
"Thank you my lord." Atemu said knowing immediately who he was but not quite knowing why. Ra smiled.
"Thank your high priest." He said and nodded towards where Seto was standing with the dragon behind him.
"It was he who defeated the evil force and returned it to where it came from."
The three walked over but Jou had had enough of all the formality and rushing over he jumped at Yugi knocking him flying and landing with him in a heap.
"Yuug! I thought you were…but now you are…and…and…" Jou could hardly say anything there was so much he wanted to say and both were laughing and crying at the same time.
Atemu and Seto looked at each other and shrugged before charging towards the tangle of Yugi and Jou and piling on.
Ra and the other gods watched the scene before them with amusement on their serene faces.
"You think they will be good guardians?" one of the other gods asked Ra.
"They will be perfect and just to make it perfect for them, I will restore the grandfather's life to him too."
"But the law states only one wish is allowed."
"Oh pish, it's not a wish on their part, they don't even know about him. Am I a god or not?" The other nodded knowing when to shut up and Ra walked over to where the four heroes were laughing and talking all at once.
Ra cleared his throat loudly and they all stopped talking and bowed in respect.
"I have one request to make of you my children."
"Yes anything my lord." Atemu said keeping his head bowed.
"We wish to ask you to be the guardians of all the Millennium Items. Will you do this for us?"
"We would be glad to my lord." Seto said and the others nodded in agreement.
"That is good, you will know which items are rightfully yours to guard when you touch them."
"Thank you for this honour my lord." Yugi said "But I have one question. Why is it there are now two puzzles? One round my neck and one round Atemu's?"
Ra smiled and nodded.
"Just as you are two halves of one soul, so the puzzle's power has been split into two. When such time comes as it is needed again, it will rejoin as one whole."
The group bowed again and Ra walked back to where the other gods were standing and they made their way back up the staircase until they were all gone and the light faded before finally vanishing.
"Wow." Jou said scratching his head, "that was something else."
"No kidding." Yugi said and twirled round laughing. "How do I look?"
The other three laughed.
"You look like a Pharaoh." Atemu said giving his brother a hug. Come on lets get those items and go home."
"Yes come on then, hey Seto you fancy a game of charades?" Yugi called to Seto who looked mock murderous.
"Not against you two I'll lose miserably again!" he yelled and they all laughed.
'Good to have you back Atemu.' Yugi said through their mind link.
'Yes we owe our lives to Seto and his dragon. Where did the dragon go? I didn't see him after the gods left.'
'I'm not sure, maybe he left when the gods did.' Yugi said shrugging.
Seto had seen the dragon leave, it had turned and bowed to his master before melting and returning to his resting place within the rod to await such a time as the high priest should have need of him again.
OWARI! – (The end)
Yami Seirei: wow I finished! Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.
Yugi + Atemu: Yay we're ALIVE!
Yami Seirei: well of course you are I had to have at least one story with a happy ending!
Malik and Bakura stomp off in a huff mumbling 'we hate happy endings!'
Everyone else: Aww shut it you two!
Yami Seirei: now I can work on the rest of my unfinished fics!