Okay, there's been some screaming, and there's been some yelling...but I kid you not, I only got the computer running again yesterday! My dad put in wi-fi last week, then promptly left for Japan without telling me how to rehook my computer up! So that's why I'm only posting this today!
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...Don't look at me like that, its true!
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Oh, go read the fic, you big meanies.
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Disclaimer: Yugioh not owned by me
Claimer: Stuff I invented is mine, stuff I'm borrowing is someone else's...you get the idea
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Yami hurriedly beat back his last few seconds of whirling dizziness, only to gape in shock at what he was seeing.
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Everything was still there, including the painfully bright light, but standing between the mage-demon and the spiked arm of the guardian, something that should have killed him by now, was, was -!
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What - the - HELL -
It was YUGI!
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Yugi was standing, arms outstretched, and the protection necklace on his neck was going off like a second sun had entered the room. And unbelievably enough, the necklace, which was supposed to prevent the boy from sustaining physical harm, was holding off the deadly needle-pointed hand of the guardian and preventing it from doing any damage to either of them.
Which made absolutely no SENSE - there was no way that puny-necklace-thing had been packing enough power to hold off something as big as that! Yami would have sensed it if it had, but it had been fine for basic defense, both of them had, but not for this, not anything remotely like this!
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'…Not that I'm complaining,' Yami added, scrambling to get off the ground.
Even with this little miracle, there was going to be a need for both of them to move, and it need to be very fast and timed absolutely perfectly.
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The guardian pushed harder with its arm, trying to break through the invisible shield the necklace was projecting to stop it. In response, the necklace's light grew brighter as its repelling force increased. Yugi's face was screwed up in concentration…somehow the boy was controlling the flow of magic, even if he was only instinctively aiming it and holding it up through sheer force of will.
0The necklace was giving off a high-pitched hum now - uh-oh, no way that flimsy thing had been crafted to handle this much power, it was going to give out any second -!
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It happened within seconds: the guardian pushed its arm forward, as hard as it could. The protection necklace flashed dazzlingly, the force of its repelling magic reaching such a peak that it actually shattered the guardian's huge clay arm into dust, all the way to where the arm met the body. Unfortunately, the backlash caused the necklace to splinter into fragments, burst by power beyond its capacity to hold.
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The guardian took a full step back, bellowing in astonishment. With the two counteracting pressures gone, Yugi nearly fell over, stumbling as he regained his balance. The other three mortals were near to screaming in amazed joy, but Yami's attention was momentarily drawn to the sliver of necklace he had just picked up.
His attention wasn't so taken, though, that the guardian's enraged attempt to turn both Yami and Yugi into flat pancakes went unnoticed. With lightning speed, Yami had thrown himself and the boy clear, while the guardian turned a patch of flooring into a splintery crater.
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Yami hadn't really aimed their escape anywhere more specific than 'away from the plunging hammer of death', so he was a little disoriented to find that they were both now behind the guardian. The monolithic construct, for its part, was rumbling and looking this way and that, apparently not aware exactly where its targets had vanished off to.
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"Ugh…please warn me next time, I'm all dizzy," Yugi groaned, rubbing his head as he sat up.
"Sure," Yami answered, taking this time to examine the fragment he still had clutched in one hand.
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The damage clearly showed it had ripped itself apart through a power overload.
But there were no traces of any power-boosting spells, no hint of any possible magical interference…it was as if a simple protection spell had just started multiplying its power, making itself bigger and more powerful until it exploded - except that there was nothing that could make a spell that simple DO that.
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'Well, no, there is that one thing,' Yami corrected himself, thinking of the weight in his pocket.
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A sudden half-thought made him hesitate, and Yami turned to look over his charge.
'…But…wait. Does this mean…is it even possible…did he do it?'
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Because if Yugi had, somehow, in someway, managed this…then everything finally made SENSE!
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The boy's overall level of magic was nothing special, but it wasn't the quantity, it was the quality. Yugi had to be an AMPLIFIER.
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Magical amplification was an incredibly rare branch of magic, not something you could learn easily, if you got it right at all, but once you knew how to multiply your magic, the weakest spell could turn devastatingly dangerous. In fact, overdoing amplification always resulted in too much power, which was more dangerous to its wielder than anything else…a spell-caster could 'crash and burn out', as it was sometimes called, just as easily as an artifact…the results were usually VERY messy, IF the spell-caster didn't simply vaporize.
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Back in the park, when the girl and Hauru had first shown their true colors, Yami distinctly recalled his magic going off, completely unexpectedly, while Yugi had been standing, what, right next to him? Behind him? This felt rather awkward to even consider - Yugi could have popped Yami like a hamster in a microwave, and the boy didn't even know it…
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'And no one's going to tell him that, either,' Yami decided, and turned his attention back to the guardian.
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The three-armed construct was beginning move around, carefully turning to see if its targets were somehow behind it - which Yami and Yugi were - and Yami started focusing, wanting to take this obstacle out in one strike.
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Yami's powers were nowhere near great enough to take out such a huge guardian. Or rather, they weren't strong enough normally, but he had a feeling he'd manage to, this time.
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"Um, it's turning around," Yugi piped up nervously.
"It's all right," Yami said, shaping the magic until his fingers tingled with power, "I can get it."
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Yugi seemed to push his nervousness back, and nodded. As if on cue, Yami felt his magic sharply surge - but this only confirmed his theory and he'd been counting on it.
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The guardian turned all the way around, only to face a monstrous wave of magic rushing straight for it. The vastly oversized snake blasted right through the guardian's abdomen, twisted around to pin its three remaining arms, and sliced the head in half, finishing off by mercilessly crushing the construct until it collapsed into dirt and dust.
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The snake faded, the mortals ran around finding each other again in the dust-choked air of the room, and since no one was looking Yami sucked on his burnt fingers. Hadn't crashed that time…