Prophecy
Disclaimer: THE LAST CHAPTER! AHHHH!
"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 25 – Going Back
"Agad…" a girl with dark hair and amber-brown eyes moaned, sitting up on a very comfy bed. Every single part of her body ached and cracked from lack of usage.
Then another female beside her hissed and clutched onto the amber-eyed girl's arm for support. She had light brown hair that was wavy from her loose braid and had brown eyes.
"JESUS, NOT THAT ARM!" the dark-haired lass screamed. She conked her best friend on the head.
In shock, the braided-hair girl landed on the boy next to her, who woke up from pain since the female jabbed her elbow into his ribs. The boy (with black hair and eyes) fell off the bed and his glasses fell off the side table with him. He groaned.
"Sorry, Jackie." Jennie muttered, flipping over onto her back. "Where the hell are we?"
Erica shrugged and winced from her movement. "I don't know, but my body really hurts….Even my hair hurts!"
Jackie sat up from the floor and put on his glasses. Squinting around, he concluded, "I think we're in Tien-Xiang's house."
"How'd we get here? Last thing I remember was being buried by rubble," Jennie said, scratching her head.
Erica got off the bed in an excruciating slow pace and stated, "I'm going to investigate. Help me."
"Oh, HELL NO!"
"God, I am NOT moving."
The complaints continued until Erica threw her pillow at them. She had to use her left arm since her right was in a sling…which she just noticed. Looking up, Erica gazed at her friends' damage. Jennie's head was bandaged and both of her arms were completely covered up with linen bandages while Jackie had a strange elastic vest around his upper body that constricted his movements. No wonder they hurt like crap.
"Oh, fine. Be that way," Erica snapped irritably.
Jennie stuck her middle finger up at her in response and Jackie just plunked back down to the floor. The amber-eyed girl limped to the door and just when she was about to open it, it swished open itself and the mysterious person crashed into her. Erica fell down. Looking up with fury, she saw Yami Bakura who seemed a bit apologetic.
"Welcome back," he smiled.
In a few minutes time, the trio had learned in what had happened after the mansion crashed in on the three.
Since it was too dangerous to go into the mansion while it was still falling down and professional help was lagging, Yami and the other team who had entered the Shadow Realm had to call Teá, Joey, and Tristan to help them in a payphone. It took at least three hours to wait for the smoke to clear and by that time Kaiba and Tien-Xiang also came.
It took six more hours for the search and the neighbors were finally smart enough to call the rescue stations. Luckily, Tristan and Teá had found the three before things got complicated. The group went into Tien-Xiang's van (he had a lot of cars) and drove off just when the fire department came along. Bakura healed some of the trio injuries and everyone else had gone home that day. Seto had to remain since, of course, he had to live in Tien's house now. Ever since that day, the three had been unconscious for four weeks.
Jackie, Erica, and Jennie all heard this from Tien-Xiang, Seto, Bakura, and everyone else who had taken part in the mission when B.K. called everyone that the three had woken up.
"How did you find us? I mean, we could've been anywhere and…well…anywhere under that debris," Erica asked.
Tien winked, "Well, that was fairly easy since you, Erica, gave out the signal in where you were. Remember Bakura?"
Erica's eyes grew big from surprise and Bakura looked away blushing.
"What signal? What about Bakura?" Jennie inquired suspiciously.
"Well, Bakura over there engraved his symbol on Erica's palm so if she was in trouble, she was to rub it. Apparently, she did and the albino was a sort of 'Erica detector,'" the hacker-boy's uncle answered.
Jackie and Jennie looked at Erica's palm and saw no mark. Laughing, Tien-Xiang continued, "It's not there anymore, of course. It's a one time use. However…if Erica wanted to have it again, she would have to exchange something of hers with Bakura…which means saliva to saliva if you know what I mean."
Jennie's widened. Then she wiggled her eyebrows at her female friend and nudged, "Heeeey, getting closer now, aren't we?"
Erica started to choke the braided hair girl and Seto fumed. Everyone laughed.
"What about the Shadow Realm?" Jackie said warily. "Is it gone?"
Erica stopped trying to kill Jennie and Jennie herself stopped smacking her friend so they could hear the response.
Tristan, who was told of the whole story (Teá and Joey included) grinned, "It's gone! All of it!"
The trio looked at each other. Then they grinned big and wide, cheering their heads off as they hugged. Slowly, eventually, they cried from happiness, too.
The war was finally over.
Another few weeks passed by and school was about to begin soon. The trio had fully healed and spent every single minute hanging around with their new friends, the Yu-Gi-Oh cast. Of course, the three teens had to tell that they belonged in a dimension in which the YGO cast was actually a T.V. show. To be honest, they didn't believe the three, but after some embarrassing blackmailing comments from Jennie, they finally believed them. They took it quite nicely, actually ("Cool! I'm famous!" Joey chirped).
While everyone had fun, Tien-Xiang was hard at work (with some help from the trio and Seto when they had the time) in putting up the return home portal. At the last week of vacation, it was finally ready.
"You know," Erica started, arm in arm with her friends as they walked down to the basement, "the Shadow Realm said something really weird before it disappeared."
Jennie blinked. "Really? Are you sure it wasn't the usual 'I'm-Going-To-Have-Revenge-When-I-Come-Back speech?"
The amber-eyed girl shook her head as she replied, "No, it said something like, 'Help me! Help me, summoner! I can still succeed! I can still kill these mortals! Please!' It was really weird."
"Hey, now that I think about it, the Shadow Realm did mention something about being summoned by this person and that person being on its side the time when I broke my ribs," Jackie pondered.
Erica gasped, "Do you think there's another person behind the Shadow Realm? What if the Realm was just a decoy or something?"
The trio looked at each other.
"Nah!" they chorused, chuckling.
Finally, the three reached the door to the basement.
"Well, let's get this over with!" Jennie sighed contently.
With happy smiles, Jackie, Jennie, and Erica pushed open the door and went down the stairs to say goodbye to their friends one last time.
Jennie joked around with Joey and Tristan, talking about her birthday party (good times) and Jackie laughed loudly when Teá told him that she liked Yugi now. The hacker-boy laughed even harder when Yugi pulled him aside and told him the same thing; the two lovebirds liked each other. Malik and Isis went back to Egypt and had said their goodbyes already. They didn't like to say sayonara in person—it was too emotional.
"Come on, Erica!" Jackie yelled, standing in front of the portal.
"Yeah!" Jennie teased. "Say goodbye to your fans already!"
Erica rolled her eyes and faced Seto and Bakura. "Now, behave you two. Don't go at each others' throats."
Seto and Bakura glanced at each other and looked away, not even wanting to comprehend each other.
"Er…you can do that, too." Erica drifted. "Oh, Seto, do you have a place to live since we…uh…kinda ruined your home?"
Joey called out, "More like destroying the whole thing to rubble!"
Everyone snickered.
Seto ignored them. "Yes, I do. Tien-Xiang is coming back to your world with you and he gave me this house to keep."
Erica nodded and turned to Bakura.
"Yes, I won't send anyone innocent into the Shadow Realm again," the albino drawled.
The girl beamed and bent down to Mokuba. She hugged him and said playfully, "Keep an eye on your big brother for me. Don't let him turn into a pig-headed jerk again."
The little boy giggled as he promised. Seto twitched and everyone gave a cough that sounded suspiciously like, "Yeah, right." Suddenly, Erica embraced the two men into a big hug.
"See ya later, you two," she whispered into their ears. The boys hugged her back.
Erica reluctantly walked away and faced her two best friends. They smiled at each other and held hands. The three took one last look at the basement and all of their friends. Teá was sniffing tearfully as Tristan and Joey tried hard to keep back their tears. Waving, they turned to the portal that had electricity fizzing inside it. It reminded them of the Shadow Realm. Jennie shivered and Erica comforted her by holding tighter onto her hand. Taking in deep breaths, the trio nodded at Tien-Xiang.
Then they walked into the portal happy, secure…
…And ready to go home.
A/N: I am DONE! (starts to dance around, doing the chicken dance). PROPHECY IS OVER PEOPLE! YEEEEEEES! EVERYONE, CELEBRATE! (starts to sing the Celebrex commercial song) CELEBRATE, CELEBRATE, COME ON AND CELEBRATE! OH, YEAH!
Okay, enough of my weird antics. To all the reviewers, I want to thank you for sticking with me till the very end. You don't know how happy it makes me to know that this story has not only gone beyond the hundred reviews limit, but you all have supported me so kindly with every chapter that I have updated. I also thank you guys for the constructive criticism. Without all of you, this story would still be on the first chapter…AND HERE ARE THE REVIEWERS!
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