And now, as I present you this next chapter (just a little bit behind schedual) let me just say one thing.
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DON'T KILL ME!
(authoress hides under Impenatrable Fortress O' Solitude..aka a rock)
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Disclaimer: I don't not not own Yugioh
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For the first time in seemed like a VERY long while since this adventure had started, Yami was actually having fun.
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His demonic side was basking in the thrill of such a wild and dangerous fight, while the rest of him was treating this battle as just another one of the more dangerous old games…perfectly reasonable and quite understandable, of course, when you thought about what those sorts of games usually consisted of…
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It helped that golems were much faster and steadier than regular panicky humans…Yami's world had narrowed down to his reflexes, feint-duck-leftblock-rightblock-jump-uppercut-stab-dive-flip-cutcutcut…
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As things progressed, Yami was treated to fleeting glimpses of how the mortals were doing.
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Bursts of flame from the far side of the golem horde showed that Jou had finally figured out the right way to use his flameblade, and the blonde was now whaling merrily away at everything in his path. As for the other three, some more of the clay-men had caught up to them, keeping them from getting out the doorway, but it wasn't going as badly as it could have been…especially when 'stray' bursts of Yami's magic easily took care of any golem that got within three feet of Yugi.
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The number of golems dropped rapidly, perhaps too rapidly - when there was only about a dozen left, every single golem abruptly broke off it's attack, turned around, and in unison ran towards the center of the room. There was no one in that part of the room, which made this seem very strange at first, but when the golems reached the center they kept running…ramming right into each other at full speed.
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"Uh-oh…dis can't be good…" Yami heard Jou say from his spot on the other side of the room.
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As the golems hit one another, their bodies shifted and melted together, the shifting lumps of clay stretching upwards to reach bigger and more dangerous forms. With astonishing rapidity, the nine intact golems and four damaged golems merged into two mammoth-sized things…things which Yami only vaguely recalled learning about, a long time ago.
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A far higher class of magical construct than any mere golem, a guardian was a destructive force of unparalleled single-mindedness and ferocity…and that was the sort of information people took to their graves via their sudden bone-crushing demises.
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These guardians, though still made of the same clay as the golems that composed them, were more than twice as tall, not including their thick, black, cone-shaped heads. They also had four long arms each, two ending in blocky fists and the other two ending in long, dangerous spikes.
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'Oh shit -'
The guardians moved, rushing back towards the battles the golems had so recently abandoned. One headed towards Jou, who had immediately run to put himself between the other three mortals and this new threat. The other charged straight for Yami.
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This was very bad. Yami had been putting plenty of effort and magic into fighting the golems - too much, as it turned out - but this wasn't just terrible, it was madness! Instead of getting a chance to fight effectively, all Yami was able to do now was barely keep himself intact by defending and scrambling to get out of the way of this dangerous - not to mention FAST - opponent's reach.
0Pathetically enough, the mortals were doing better than the mage-demon at the moment. Their guardian was standing perfectly still and lashing out at the scrambling humans, letting out a hollow rumbling noise of frustration every time it missed its target - thankfully every time - or when either Jou or Ryou retaliated, hitting one of its arms with their respective magical weapon.
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In the very moment Yami was facing their direction, Honda bravely (more like INSANELY) jumped onto one of the guardian's hammering-fist hands. The giant construct, taking a moment to register this oddity, raised its hand above its head, Honda clinging to the wrist like a human leech, and tried to shake him off.
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This was apparently part of the mortals' plan, because when the guardian was distracted Jou sprang into action, unleashing the fiery serpent of his sword that he was so fond of using. Aimed correctly, it burrowed deeply into the guardian's weak point - the dull red stripe, made from the red clay of former golem heads, that ran up and down the middle of their bodies. The rest of the guardian's body collapsed into a huge pile of dirt, which Honda landed safely on after a short, screaming plunge.
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Yami was distracted by this just a little too long. Barely managing to dance out of the way of an incoming spike-hand from the guardian still trying to destroy him, the mage-demon completely missed the incoming fist aimed at the back of his head.
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When it connected, the force behind the blow gave Yami plenty of momentum to tumble across the floor, until he rolled to a halt, stunned and unable to make himself move.
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If there was any noise, having his brain rattle around his skull was more than enough to keep Yami from hearing it. According to his recovering senses, the world was twisting around very strangely, while the rumbling of the floor suggested that if Yami didn't get up, very soon he would be permanently affixed to the floor as a splatter mark.
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Too late, the guardian was there and raising a hand…now it was coming down at full speed, a blur of death from above…but something had gotten between it and Yami's eyes, a familiar shape -
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Everything dissolved in a flash of blinding white light.