Prophecy
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"When legend becomes reality,
Three warriors of ancient monsters will rampage the earth,
Of light, dark, and element.
Look to the Heavens,
They will come from there…"
Chapter 14 – Enter the Shadow Realm
The trio stared at the looming dark gate in front of them and each felt a bit nervous and scared. After suspecting something was wrong when Seto Kaiba hadn't come to school, even when Jackie called his house, his work, and his cell phone, Jennie, Jackie, and Erica decided to visit the man's house after school. However, each step that edged closer and closer to Seto's mansion was making them feel wary and sent them clutching onto their Exodia decks for comfort. After all, they were walking directly into their enemy's territory.
"You ring the bell," Erica said, poking Jennie.
"Nuh uh! Jackie, you ring the bell," she replied.
The boy shook his head furiously. The three stared at the gate.
"Um…I'm going home," Jennie drifted, turning around, but Erica grabbed onto her collar, almost choking her.
"Ohhh no." Erica snapped. "You're not abandoning us now!"
Jennie whimpered and Jackie stuttered, "U-um…shouldn't we have s-some y-yami close by or s-something?"
The dark brown haired girl, getting irritated by her two friends' cowardness (though she was scared herself) hissed, "Yeah, but whom, dim wit?"
As if in answer, arms circled Erica's waist and a seductive voice whispered in her ear, "Why, your loyal albino, of course."
Completely frozen from shock, Erica snapped together like a board. Then Jennie started to attack Yami Bakura with her school bag. Jackie just tried to get his friend out of shock.
"LAY OFF HER, YOU LECHEROUS YAMI! HOW DARE YOU KISS AND HUG MY BEST FRIEND! DIIIIIIE!" Jennie shrieked, beating the albino.
Suddenly Erica was snapped out of her temporary coma and a visible black aura surrounded her. She clutched her bag tightly and fire burned in her eyes. Jackie backed away slowly. The only time when he saw this part of Erica was when some stupid pervert harassed her in middle school. He was still in the hospital, whatever he did.
"BAKURAAAA!" Erica yelled furiously.
Then she turned around, pushed Jennie out of the way, and gave a full out attack on the Yami, including various scratches, kicks, punches, and a school bag attack that broke the sound barrier. This went on for thirty minutes, the other two friends of Erica fearfully watching in the sidelines.
Finally, Erica stopped, panting heavily, viewing her damage. She seemed to be satisfied and walked over to the Seto's mansion gate, leaning against it. Jackie and Jennie (who were covering each other's eyes) looked at the Yami and winced. The Yami was healing quickly due to his powers, but the wounds that took time to close was brutal and severe. It was like watching a bloody horror movie rewind.
When he finally healed, he jumped onto his feet and furiously stomped towards Erica. Fortunately, he stopped and backed away when she held up her ripped bag threateningly.
"Alrighty…Let's…er…go inside the house now…" Jackie said warily, watching Bakura fight his two emotions on his face; hatred for being humiliated by a girl, but still liking Erica.
With a deep breath, the three pressed the button to his house together, the yami quietly standing by. With a crackle of static on the monitor, the metal black gates creaked open, revealing the spooky house that was covered in dark aura which only the four could see. Leaving behind his fear, Jackie took the first step.
"Dang! This place is colder than Erica's room in the summer!" Jennie shivered.
Bakura gave a puzzled look and Jackie explained that the dark brown-haired girl always kept her air conditioner on in the summer, even when the room was under thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Erica simply glared at the other three.
After walking for awhile, they all noticed that they weren't getting any closer to Seto's house, though it appeared in front of them.
"We must be going around in circles!" Erica exclaimed.
Jennie looked around and saw glimpses of shadows in the fog-like aura.
"Um…Bakura?" Jackie asked, also spotting the moving shadows. "Are we…er…in the Shadow Realm?"
The yami rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, "No, we're in dark storm cloud!"
"Not funny!" Erica snapped back.
Jennie waved her arms up and shouted, her voice echoing, "Now what do we do? We're stuck!"
Bakura smirked and started to walk off, dragging a reluctant Erica behind him. The other two saw the yami go, so they followed after him. Bakura stopped a few times, standing perfectly still, and started off again. Though this was very annoying, the four reached the door to Kaiba's living quarters without any trouble at all. Erica angrily snapped her sore wrist out of Bakura's grip and kicked him in the shins for good measure. The yami winced, but didn't do anything. Silently, Jackie tried to push the doors open, but it was stuck tight.
"Care to help?" he grunted, continuing to push.
Jennie and Erica dropped their school bags and began to push at the door with Jackie. Bakura was just observing his nails. Slowly, the door opened, revealing a huge purple glob covering the doorway.
"Oh, how simply convenient!" Jennie yelled, making a rude hand gesture at the squishy glob.
After a few moments of silence, Erica tilted her head and rubbed the back of her neck. "Uh…I think it's sleeping."
"It is a guardian mainly used to protect tombs of pharaohs or high priests. Sometimes it is used as a guard for treasures. There is a good reason for using this monster, too." The yami said, standing next to Erica and Jackie.
"Foo-shmoo! That thing is harmless!" the hacker-boy retorted, stepping into the house.
Before he could take another step, though, the glob shivered and opened huge very blood-shot eyes; four eyes to be more precise. With all pupils looking at Jackie, the boy's feet froze to the floor, preventing him from running away. When the situation couldn't get any worse, the glob sprouted millions of spikes from its jelly flesh and started to roll toward the horrified boy. Erica yelled in panic and Jennie covered her eyes. Abruptly, a bright light shot out from the Yami Bakura's forehead, forming the eye of Horus.
Jackie stumbled backwards all of a sudden, released from the spell. The glob looked at Bakura with vague interest.
"Go," Bakura whispered, looking at the monster eye to eye.
Jennie went to Jackie's side and they ran deep inside the house, but Erica paused and looked back at the yami. "But what about-"
"NOW!" In a softer voice, Bakura smiled comfortingly, "I will catch up."
Erica nodded and ran after her friends.
After running for awhile, the trio stopped to take a breather and during that moment, Jennie whacked Jackie on the head.
"You nimrod!" Jennie yelled. "You and your stupid pride! You could've gotten yourself killed!"
Jackie bickered back, "How was I supposed to know that purple thing could grow spikes!"
"Helloooo! Didn't B.K. say that it was dangerous? Now Bakura is out there, fighting a blob!" Erica yelled into Jackie's ear, emphasizing on the word, 'dangerous.'
The boy made a face, but it soon disappeared when he had as sudden thought.
"What if…" he drifted, "This is the Shadow Realm, right? Do you think our cards can work in here? I mean, like in real form?"
Jennie and Erica looked at each other. With a shrug, they all took out their cards. What was there to lose?
"Wind Ryu!" Erica shouted.
Jennie yelled after, "Armored Falcon!"
And finally, Jackie bellowed, "Silver Tigress!"
A translucent, pale blue winged serpent appeared next to Erica, a huge, golden armored bird with sharp talons next to Jennie, and white tiger with silver stripes (that bigger than a car) roared close to Jackie. With a cheer, the three climbed onto their steeds and speedily went through the pitch black halls, following Jennie's shining compass, which she summoned from her magic card.
A few times, zombie like things popped out of the shadows or ground, but with their combined efforts, the three defeated them easily…until they finally came up to where Seto and Mokuba was supposed to be.
"Okay. Who knows what's on the other end so we got to be care-HEY!" Erica yelled, seeing Jackie and Jennie knock the door down with their monsters.
The door crashed to the floor and Jennie feebly smiled when Erica gave both of her friends a death glare. Then the three turned serious and squinted through the dark room.
"Oi, there's Kaiba and Mokuba!" Jennie said, pointing at two slumped figures on the floor.
In alarm, Erica came forward and when the two followed her into the room, the doors slammed shut behind them. Then gigantic green hands silently appeared below them, grabbing their monster and dragging them back into the ground, dropping the trio on the floor.
"What the hell was that?" Jackie exclaimed, massaging his back.
Erica suddenly stood up and with a worried expression, she took out her Exodia deck. "No time to worry about those hands. Look."
Jennie and Jackie gazed at where Erica pointed to. Three monsters came out of the shadows and on them were caped human things with their hoods covering their faces. All of the monsters were like Godzilla, only that they were black, had red eyes, longer fangs and talons, taller, and basically ten times worse than Japan's walking disaster.
"Oh damn." The threesome muttered.
Roaring, the three black Godzillas attacked the trio with snapping jaws, thrashing tails, and stomping feet. Panting, Erica and Jennie ran into a small hole, screaming as one of the monsters tried to shove his mouth inside the hole. Then it got its snout stuck in it. Exhaling stinky breath, the Godzilla tried to pull its mouth out.
"Now what!" Erica shouted, kicking at the dinosaur's nose.
Jennie dodged one of the fangs that almost dug into her leg. "How the hell am I supposed to know!"
"Cards! Use the cards!"
Jennie and Erica flipped through their decks and when they chose their selection, the monster sniffed in the magic card fumes. With a bloodcurdling roar, the dinosaur shrinked until it was the size of Erica's shoe. With a feeble "Meep!" it curled up and fell asleep.
"Reverse Evolution!" the two girls high-fived.
Then the man who was riding and directing the monster, got up from the floor, and took out a familiar card.
"The Shadow Cards," Jennie whispered.
With a quick glance at each other, they went separate ways, trying to avoid the other monsters. Jackie, meanwhile, was in deep trouble. He was chained to the wall and one of the Godzillas hungrily eyed him, waiting for its rider to set loose its reins.
The caped man spoke in a raspy voice, "Give me the Exodia cards and you may live."
The boy snorted and pulled at his chains. The shackles only held tighter. When he spotted Erica running behind the lizard in front of him, he made the shackles make as much noise as possible. Fortunately, his friend heard him and stopped. Distracting the dinosaur from Erica, he started to do the Macarena. The black, red-eyed monster and its rider stared at the dancing boy.
Abruptly, during the hacker-boy's crazy boogie, the caped man felt the Exodia's aura close to him. Turning around, it screamed in fury as it saw Erica taking out a trap card. Instantly, the enemy vanished in a burst of smoke and the chains that held Jackie disappeared.
Grabbing the boy's arm, Erica shouted, "Come on! We gotta help Jennie!"
Jennie, in the moment, was running across the room with the last Godzilla chasing after her. The rider cackled evilly as his shadow steed snapped at her ankles.
"Why meeee!" she cried. Then she spotted her two friends in front of her, holding cards. With a look from the duo, Jennie fell onto the floor and ducked.
With a ray of light, the remaining nuisance was obliterated. Before they could celebrate, six more of the same monster reappeared, snarling.
"Oh, just magnificent in how to end my life," Jackie said sarcastically.
When all of the monsters charged at them, the doors of the immense room flew open and a great flash of light engulfed the room for a couple of seconds. When the light finally faded, the room was empty and at the doorway was a battered Bakura.
The man grinned, but it faded as he fell forward.
"Bakura," Erica yelled, racing to the yami, "are you okay?"
The albino waved the girl away as he weakly got up. "I told you I would catch up. Now, let's get out of here. The shadows are getting stronger every minute."
Jennie picked up Mokuba while Jackie pushed Kaiba onto his shoulder.
"Yeah, but how do we get out of here really quickly?" Jennie said. Everyone looked at Erica. She merely smiled.
"I think I have an idea," the girl smirked.
Everyone screamed in panic and fear as Erica's super fast Elemental Dragon raced through the halls by either blasting or dodging the enemies before it. Jennie and Jackie clung onto the dragon's long mane while holding their unconscious victims of the Shadow Realm. At the same time, Erica and Bakura was at the head, directing her dragon in where to go. Eventually, they reached the exit of the house, but more unfortunate events occurred.
One was that the Elemental Dragon disappeared once it left Kaiba's mansion. Two was that the Shadow Realm had taken solid form into a huge glob…that turned into a titanic spider with sharp legs and fangs.
"Oh #$&!" Jackie, Jennie, and Erica cursed as the huge spider struggled to get out of the house.
"What do we do now?" Jennie yelled, looking at Bakura. He was no help. He seemed just as hopeless as she was.
Erica frantically looked around for something of use. Then she saw a black luxury car that Kaiba usually drove. "Everyone, into the car!"
The spider shifted its form, slithered out through any openings, and combined itself back together, hissing at the group. Quickly everyone went to the car; Erica was at the driver's seat, Bakura was in the right front seat, and Jennie and Jackie was in the backseats with Seto and Mokuba. While Jennie and Jackie were looking behind them, Bakura saw Erica look at the controls.
"Do you know how to drive?" Bakura asked nervously.
Erica grinned and put her hands on the steering wheel. Jackie and Jennie swung around and fearfully buckled up their seatbelts.
"Oh, God, no…" Jackie whispered, face turning pale.
"Hell, yeah, I know how to drive!" exclaimed Erica, starting Kaiba's car (which had the key conveniently in its the slot) and throwing it in reverse. "Sit down, shut up, and hang on!"
Suddenly the car violently lurched backwards and sped under the snapping spider. Then Erica put the car forward, turned the steering wheel (everyone crashed into the windows), and hit the pedal hard. Going one hundred miles per hour, the vehicle crashed through the metal gates and continued to race forward, avoiding other cars, pedestrians, and finally stopping when they ended up in a park. Luckily, the Shadow Realm's boundary was just around the mansion. However, it wasn't so nice for the passengers in the car.
When Erica quickly parked, Jennie and Jackie ran out to somewhere so they could lose their lunch and breakfast. Bakura just got out of the car so he could calm his rapidly beating heart. When Erica made sure that Seto and Mokuba was fine (besides the fact that they were deprived of food and water and some new bruises from the ride), she, too, got out and sat on the hood of the dented, scratched, steaming automobile, watching Bakura breathe slowly.
"Nice driving, eh?" Erica said.
Yami Bakura gave the girl an incredulous look and yelled shrilly, "You practically killed us while you were driving that blasted thing! It was safer and more comfortable, mind you, to be fighting the Shadow Realm than go in the same car with you driving! I will never, ever get into that car again!"
Erica laughed out loud. "I was just kidding, B.K.! After all, I'm the only one without the driver's license therefore the only reckless driver in this whole team. So, if it wasn't for me, you'd all be dead!"
Bakura looked at the girl squarely in the eyes and saw pure enjoyment shining in her amber irises. With amazement, he realized that this girl practically reveled in her friend's fears…which only made him attracted to her even more.
When Erica saw the mischievous look in the yami's eyes, she stopped smiling and backed away. "Ohhhhh no. You are not kissing me again. I swear, if you do, I'll-"
Too late.
Boy kisses girl full on the mouth.
Friends laugh hysterically again.
Girl attacks boy viciously despite injuries.
Friends are now scared.
Chaos starts all over again.
A/N: Whew, I'm finally done! Yay! Anyway, I like Erica's driving. I wish I could drive like that. (laughs) So, happy belated Christmas and hope you enjoyed this chapter. As usual, I would like to thanks my reviewers who had been so kindly reading this junk that's actually called a story. Sohere are the names!
DarkHand27, Atem's Queen of The Nile, TudeDeluxe, carolsi13, candy-animelover600, and Hi.
Thanks for all your support! Yay! HAVE A CANDY CANE! (throws candy canes at the reviewers). For the people who haven't reviewed, no candy for you! Hmph!
Hey…Doesn't candy canes remind you of that crazy guy that Jennie versed against at Field Day? Hmm…CRAZY PEOPLE WILL HAUNT YOU IN YOUR DREAMS WITH CREEPY COLD FINGERS! MWAHAHAHAHA!
Erm…yeah. You know the drill! Review, review, and review!