Disclaimer: See the intro. Chapter
Takes place 3 years after Dark Tournament in YYH. YGO will come into play later, and Big O will enter during the upcoming tournament.
Oh, here are the original cards Helldragon sent me:
Magic Devourer
Spellcaster/Effect
Dark
Level 1
Atk:0 Def.:0
Flavor Text: Metabolizes magical energy like the process of digestion
Effect: When this monster is Normal/Special Summoned, discard any amount of Magic cards from your hand. This monster gains 10 Atk./Def. points for each card you discard this way. During your standby phase, you must discard a card from your hand. If not, Magic Devourer is destroyed.
Dark Reaper of the Grave
Fiend/Effect
Level 8
Atk.2370/ Def. 2930
Flavor text: The true form of The Reaper of the Cards, emerged from the depths of the graveyard.
Effect: This card can only be Special Summoned from your hand by offering "Reaper of the Cards" equipped with "Call of the Haunted" as a Tribute during your Main Phase. You may pay 500 Life Points to negate a Trap card as long as this card remains face-up on the field.
Lycanthropic Dragon
Type: Dragon/Effect
Level: 4
ATK: 1600
DEF: 1200
Flavor Text: One strike of this creature's claws infects a monster with its horrible curse.
Effect: Whenever this card destroys a monster, Special Summon that monster on your side of the field during your End Phase. That monster is a Dragon in addition to its other types.
Name: Frenzied Rage
Type: Continuous Magic
Effect: Every monster on your side of the field may attack twice during their Battle Phase. Pay 500 Life Points during your Standby Phase.
Name: Mace of Disruption
Type: Equip Magic
Effect: Increase the ATK of the monster equipped with this card by 500 points. Any Zombie-type monster attacked by the monster equipped with this card is destroyed. Damage calculations still apply.
Name: Counterspell
Type: Counter Trap
Effect: Pay 10 Life Points to negate a Magic or Trap card and destroy it. If this card exists in your Graveyard, you may negate and destroy a Magic or Trap card by paying 20 Life Points and removing Counterspell from the game.
Thanks for the review, Helldragon! I'll make sure that these cards get in the fic!
Makai Prison; Maximum Security Wing; Spirit World
Chapter 1: Rise of Darkness
" WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH?!?"
"Listen, Hiei. I tried to convince the jury as far as I could. How was I supposed to know Botan would let that deal with the Tomb keeper's slip?"
"I DON'T WANT YOUR GOD DAMN EXCUSES, KOENMA! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!"
This screaming fit echoed through the stone-lined walls of the Makai fortress prison. More specifically, it came from the High Security Sector. This enormous portion of the vast penitentiary was reserved for criminals with immense Shadow powers which could not be contained with normal prison cells. These cells, originally designed to hold creatures such as the Saint Beasts or Demons like Toguro the younger, were now used to contain lowly criminals that were not even worthy of the attention of a spider, let alone the mighty emperor Koenma.
This, however, was no ordinary criminal.
Across the hall from the main warden's center, a massive iron door, inscribed with Druid symbols containing an ancient black magic that only an individual with vast shadow power could unleash, sealed the prison of one of the most powerful demons in existence.
It was this criminal mastermind that Koenma was staring at from across a large steel table. Fortunately, the fiendish convict, known only as Hiei, was strapped to a chair with what was known in the Spirit and Shadow Realm as a Spellbinding Circle; otherwise, there was no doubt that he would have torn out Koenma's throat after he heard the terrible news.
Immediately after the Dark Tournament, Hiei had made the fairly large mistake of murdering Alex Rosewater. Of course, with the combination of facts that Hiei was not even thought to exist in the Mortal Realm and that Rosewater was considered to be the most powerful businessman in the nation, this event had the effect of drawing too much attention to the Spirit World.
This was an unacceptable circumstance.
After Koenma had taken over the throne during the aftermath of the Dark Tournament, his first act of business was to clear up the shockwaves and/or media fallout that could pin this event to his realm; in other words, assassinate any and all military police personnel who had even a fleeting suspicion that an outsider from another dimension. The next ordeal was to determine who had committed the atrocity. For this, the toddler-like potentate needed stealth and discretion; the Paradigm Military Police were not keen on letting evidence from a crime. This was where Yuseke Urameshi, the Imperial System's most trustworthy detective, came into play.
Thanks in part to Genkai's training, Urameshi had gained a very rare ability: astral projection, the talent of transferring a portion of your spirit into a ghost-like entity that could pass through walls and obtain secret information without being noticed.
Needless to say, it was the ultimate spy tool.
The information took a little while to take hold of; the police station was destroyed by a megadeuce, whatever that was. Yet when the information had been uncovered from the wreckage of the station, both Koenma and Yuseke knew the description all too well: a short humanoid in his early twenties, or so it looked, with a towering stack of flame-like black hair with a stark white starburst.
Hiei was arrested the next day.
Although the true criminal behind the hideous butchering of Rosewater had been captured, Koenma had a very large problem to deal with: since Hiei had worked for Koenma for a while after the defeat of the Saint Beasts, so the conviction of the demon would only lead to disastrous feedback towards the Imperialism. In a desperate attempt to hide his name in the trial, he paid off various witnesses and jury members to give Hiei a lighter sentence, or even nullify the indictment altogether. Koenma was so frantic to escape the long arm of his own government that he hired a sect of deranged mercenaries known as the Tomb Keepers to annihilate any prosecution witnesses.
It was this effort that lead to the plans destruction.
Several days before the trial began, Botan, who had long since been demoted from a deity of death to Koenma's personal secretary, had been assigned the job of looking over several files involving Spirit world convicts during the past month. Unfortunately, Koenma had left his bribes and blackmail files within there without knowing it. The rest of the story is self-explanatory.
Hiei had not only been sentenced to death by inflagration, but Koenma was now facing charges of treason and illegal bribes. The reason that Hiei was so infuriated was that the appeal that the Emperor had set up had been turned down by the counsel of judges; the execution would proceed as scheduled.
Koenma's expression was now one of shock and fury. Considering the fact that he had put his neck on the line for this ingrate who constantly defiled his administration and authority, he thought that the demon would be thanking him, not swearing at him like the scumbag he was. At this point, he finally snapped.
"SHUT UP, YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I PUT MY ASS ON THE LINE TO SAVE YOUR WORTHLESS SKIN, AND THIS IS THE THANKS I GET?!? I SHOULD KILL YOU FOR THIS! I COULD HAVE LET THE COUNSEL IMPRISON YOU FOR LIFE AFTER YOU STOLE THOSE SHADOW ITEMS, BUT NO, I JUST HAD TO SAVE YOU FROM DEATH FOR YOUR OWN MORONIC ACTIONS! I SHOULD KILL YOU FOR THIS, DEMON! I SHOULD..."
Koenma did not get to say anything else, for the Emperor had struck a nerve. At this point, Hiei burst free of the magic of the circle and tore off the headband he had worn every day for the past year. In absolute silence, he revealed his Jagen eye, or at least, where it should have been. For the Jagen eye, powerful as it was, had been replaced with something worse. Something that even Koenma's magical pacifier could not defeat.
At the center of the demons head was a golden eye that very slightly resembled the Eye of Horus on the Millennium Puzzle. In fact, these two were very closely related. For reasons unknown, Hiei had replaced his Jagen eye with the even greater device known as the Millennium Eye. How he had gotten it was unknown to Koenma, nor did the latter have time to puzzle it out, for at this point, the ancient Egyptian totem of power had begun to glow a bright golden color, outlined in black of the deepest night, set there by the Jagen Eye of a time before. To Hiei, all the hatred he had ever felt towards Koenma was being exacted in a beam of power he had never known to have controlled. To Koenma, it felt like his very soul was being torn out of him, which was more or less true. As the Millennium Eye dragged out Koenma's soul, his pacifier slowly began to crumble into dust, while at the same time, Hiei's two remaining eyes flashed a black similar to that surrounding the Eye in the center of his forehead.
The Millennium Eye was draining Koenma's life force, as well as his power.
After a few minutes, Hiei stopped the Eye's power and ceased draining the Emperor's shell of a body. "No one raises his voice to me and lives, Koenma. Now you shall spend the rest of your pathetic existence locked away in the torturous corners of the labyrinth that is my mind.
"Ever since the day you and I first met, you have made my life a living hell. First you force me to side with that pathetic Urameshi. Then you have my sister executed to draw me out. Now you attempt to seal me in your pile of rubble that you call a prison.
"Well, now that I control your ancient power that is masqueraded in the form of an infant's pacifier, your walls can no longer hold me. Yet before I dissolve your body and this fortress in an infinite void , I think you have something that belongs to me."
With that, Hiei began searching Koenma's person, until he found what he was looking for: a duel disk, a deck of duel monsters cards, and what looked like an invitation.
"Now that I have my deck and dueling disk back, and your invitation, I shall settle something I should have settled a long time ago, and before the blood-red moon rises, I shall control the universe and these pathetic mortals shall bow to me as God! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
And Hiei laughed and laughed as the entire fortress and everything and everyone within it (save Hiei) was consumed in an infinite abyss.
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