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The two boys didn't notice two sad, golden orbs watching them. And they didn't hear the voice whispering to him.
"I should have done this month before." Yuugis Master sighed. "The Prince doesn't even seem to know, that his feelings are far beyond friendship already."
With that and a decision made, Yuugis Master retreated back into the palace.
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Yuugis POV
I couldn't sleep this night. Too many things ran through my head as I thought back to the strange antics Atemu showed earlier in the gardens.
Just as it was about time for Ra to show up for another day again – I suggested as I couldn't see it in our windowless chamber – I heard someone sneaking inside and sat up just in time to see a crown of hair similar to mine dash into the room.
I sweat dropped and lowered my voice to a whisper in an attempt of not waking my Master as I spoke. "Atemu! What are you doing here this early!"
The other just popped out of the darkness in front of me, grabbed my ankle and dragged my out of the room. I couldn't suppress a surprised squeal. 'MAN! He REALLY is acting strange since yesterday!'
Without a word from the Prince I was dragged by him to his chambers. I pouted slightly as the desire to know what the heck was going on took a steadily growing place inside of my mind. I knew he was still upset about last night, but I didn't understand WHY he was at all! My Master and I did make ourselves clear that we can't stay here for a long time! And now it had been 6 months already!
As we entered his chambers I realized that my time-suggesting was a little overdone: it was still dark outside.
Atemu however made his way to his dresser and pulled out the two brown cloaks we wore the day before end threw one in my direction. Out of a reflex, I caught it and looked at him slightly confused.
"AGAIN! And that's why you are pulling me out of my bed?" I whined. Atemu just snorted.
"As if you were already sleeping this night!" His tone was slightly angry – no! Screw that! It was pissed! I raised one of my fine eyebrows in surprise on his tone.
"Atemu, your sadness is understandable, because I know that you don't have many friends you can already trust and I'm leaving in a short time, but this is way too extreme!" I gulped when I saw the colour of his crimson eyes darkening to a deep red that reminded me of dried blood. Maybe I hit the line...
"I will not let you leave!" he growled with a hint of possessiveness in his voice that irritated me to no end. He never acted in front of me like this before. Sure, he showed others – like his cousin Seth – the dark and angry side of his, but never had he done it in front of me – directed at me!
I moved three steps away from him. "A-Atemu...?" I stumbled. "Are you sure, you feel alright? Maybe you just need some sleep..." I felt a wave of nervousness as his eyes darkened even more. Okay... now I was definitely over the line! "Okay, okay, I put it on..." I sighed and began to put the cloak on.
I didn't know WHAT caused him to be THAT angry in the morning, but I shoved it off to the lack of sleep he got the last few weeks because his father was training him in shadow games and nightmares haunted him ever since he began this training.
By the time we both were in our cloaks Ra was already beginning his day-tour on the sky. (1)
To be honest: I felt kind of miserable, because Atemu was angry with me. But I didn't know what I could do about it. I mean: other than obeying his wishes.
This time we were not followed by the guards – it was just way too early and most of them were asleep. That caused Atemu to let all his anger out on them for not doing their duty properly. As soon as we were out of earshot he began with his fuming.
"I can't believe they actually fell asleep! No wonder there are so many thieves breaking into the palace!"
We walked along the main street and I covered the urge to yawn my head out with a cough. The merchants were already setting up their shops and I found it quite interesting watching them doing their morning work.
That is until I saw a figure in front of us in a long, bluish-white mantle followed by what looked like a large, white cat with black stripes all over its body. My master told me about those cats. They were called 'tiger' and were feared in the lands east of the lands known by the commoners. But he told me they were orange with black stripes.
"What is this animal...?" I jumped at Atemus voice which sounded kind of fearful at the sight of the cat.
I was just about to answer him, as the cat turned to us and growled slightly dangerous. It seemed to me that it was looking directly into my eyes and the amber orbs let me shudder.
"Was ist denn, Byakko?" (What is it, Byakko?) It was the voice of a female person who spoke in the language of the Vikings. (2) My Master spoke often in this language to me so I had to learn it, until I was able to speak and understand this language fluently. After all most of the summonings were in this language.
"What did she just say...?" Atemu asked from behind me again. With a wave of my hand I let him know to be quiet.
The figure – girl – turned to us, too. We met with light blue eyes – it almost seemed turquoise –, pale skin and light blonde, shoulder length hair. On each side of her face were plaited pigtails which were at least double the length as her regular hair.
"Uhh... her eyes are kind of scary..." It was the child breaking through Atemus antics again. "They seem so..."
"Cold? Emotionless?" I tried to help since there didn't seem to come anything more out of Atemus mouth. And the prince just nodded. He was right – her eyes didn't seem to be able to show any emotion at all.
"Das sind doch bloß Kinder. Kümmere dich nicht darum." (They're just children. Don't mind them.) With that said she turned again and returned on her own way.
"I don't know, what she just said, but it sounded to me like an insult!" Atemu began walking after her, but I held him back.
"Wait, I want to test something out!" And behind us came a dangerous growl and the dragon-High-Faith I called the other day shot its way towards the girl.
Atemu was perplexed. "W-When did you...?"
It was clear to me that the girl – if she wasn't what I think she was – would die just at the very next moment. And I was nervous I would end up as a murderer today.
But at the very last moment she turned again and her cold gaze locked with mine.
Just before the dragon could actually attack her, she shot a cold smile at me and raised her right hand in front of her. "Donnerschild..." (Thundershield) was all she mumbled and in one millisecond she and the tiger were surrounded by a shield of thunder which caused my dragon to recoil and screech in agony.
I returned him to his realm just before he could hit the ground.
"Jetzt bin ich dran..." (Now it's my turn...) Her eyes began to glow, as if they were on fire and a wind seemed to come out of nowhere causing our hair and cloaks to blow in it.
Her tiger – whom she called 'Byakko' – began to grow in the same time as the wind picked up. In the end the feline was about twice the size as its Master and Atemu and I had to cover our eyes with our arms, to protect them from drying out.
"WHAT THE...!" Atemu yelled over the sound of the storm that seemed to come out of nowhere – directly into my ear which caused me to not only try to cover my eyes, but my ears, too. 'Sometimes I really feel the need to kick his ass!'
I looked at the girl from under my arm, gasping as I realized she was pointing at us and mumbled the sign for the tiger to attack her eyes – except for the slightly triumphant glow in them – as emotionless as before. It even shocked me more to see that the Faith seemed to take the head back and was gathering all the wind in front of its mouth to form a blow strong enough to be sure that we would not be able to see the next sunrise if it actually hit us.
Atemu gulped slightly from behind me. "I think we should leave immediately!"
Actually I was quite fond of this idea, but I shook my head at him. "That wouldn't make much sense... she will find us, no matter where we hide!" I yelled back at him an idea hitting me as I said this. "I'll take care of this dilemma!"
The prince gave me a look that seemed to scream 'Great, NOW I'm REALLY confident with this situation!' at me, but I ignored it constantly. I didn't have the time to argue with a spoiled Prince right now! (3)
So I walked up to the girl, but stopped dead after I had done two steps by her angry voice.
"Noch eine Bewegung und es wird deine letzte sein!" (One move and it shall be your last!) I sighed quietly. I mean: she looked like 16 but was acting like she was in our age...
"Bitte hör auf!" (Please stop it!) I said and could hear Atemus surprised gasp behind me. Seemed like he didn't know it was common for a summoner to speak this language. However, her face remained emotionless. "Wir wollten dich wirklich nicht zum Angreifen provozieren. Bitte ruf deine Faith zurück..." (We really didn't mean to provoke you to attack. Please call your Faith back...)
Her eyes showed a light glint at the mention of the word 'Faith'. "Faith?" she asked, her face becoming a thoughtful look. "Ich verstehe..." (I see...) With these words, the wind slowed down and the tiger gained his originally size back. "Du bist also der Schüler von Fafnir?" (So you're Fafnir's apprentice?) I nodded an uneasy feeling came over me by the mention of my Masters name as he was called by other summoners. Then a smile showed on her face, but it didn't reach her eyes. "I'm Sigyn!" her voice was accented as she changed the language. "I will be you tutor for the next month!"
SLAP!
Again it was my time to get punished for the Princes spoiled ness! And again it was my Master having the honour to do the punishing.
"YOU JUST DID IT AGAIN!" he screeched. I always wonder if he wasn't overheard in the whole palace when I get my 'lessons' – as he called it. "DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW FREAKED OUT I WAS, WHEN I FOUND YOUR BED AMPTY THIS MORNING!" I said nothing. It was always the same with my Master: let him cry his heart out and he will shut up sooner or later. Most of the time it was later, but who cares? "AND TO CROSS THE LINE YOU EVEN ATTACKED SIGYN! SHE COULD HAVE KILLED YOU IN AN INSTANT!"
"Its okay, Fafnir" an emotionless, female voice came out of one corner. "I was bored anyway."
My Master turned to her in a pace, like he was bitten by a poisonous spider or something like that. "That doesn't explain why he attacked you!"
Sigyns cold gaze was now resting on him and it seemed like he cringed under it – I really couldn't blame him at all. "Stop punishing him! His life is not in your hands any longer for a whole month! You should go practicing for the last test as well and not stay here and distracting MY apprentice!" she snorted. "It was you after all who called me. To teach him the things he must know by that time!"
I sighed. The conversation of them didn't lead to anything intelligent... I knew my Master would never give up so easily...
It took me only a glance at my Masters face to see him biting his lip in ... defeat...? And then he nodded slightly unwillingly and left the room without another glance at me or at Sigyn. Okay, now I was able to be scared like hell!
"You should leave this land. We don't want my apprentice sensing your strength all the time!" She said after him – loud enough to be sure he heard. But nothing came in response.
Instead Atemu came running inside the room, hiding immediately beneath the closet. "You didn't see me!" he hissed and I gave him a confused look – until I saw a VERY pissed Seth running inside at this very moment.
"Atemu! I know you're inside this room, so leave your hiding place immediately!"
I sweat dropped at the sight of him. His chest, neck and hair were covered in a gel-like ... something that smelled suspiciously like fouled eggs. Immediately an idea hit me, how he got in this state and this idea let me snicker slightly. Unfortunately that caught his attention.
His cerulean eyes looked very pissed into my amethyst ones. I knew my eyes were shining with pure amusement as some of the egg dripped down his front hair directly on his nose and from this position on the floor. I REALLY had to use all my self-control to not burst out laughing, holding my stomach and rolling on the floor like a madman.
"Where.is.he!" he hissed but I wasn't going to answer him. NO WAY would I betraying the trust of a friend. The only thing I did was shrugging.
"Behind the closet." Unfortunately I forgot about a certain, emotionless teenager who STILL was in the room.
Seth on the other hand turned where is prey was hidden, stomped in the closets direction and pulled Atemu out from behind it.
"Let me go! Let me go I tell you!" The young prince yelled, struggling to get free from his cousins tight grip. But to no avail. With a low bow and without another word Seth left the room. I could hear their arguing as they were going along the corridor. I couldn't help but smirk slightly at them until I heard a rustling of clothes and Sigyn was about to leave as well, when I picked up my head to look at the cause of the sound.
"No time to be amused!" Her voice sounded extremely stern and it didn't seem like it was the voice of a teenage girl. "Your training will begin in an instant! So move your ass and follow me!"
I sighed heavily, but one look in her eyes told me I wouldn't get out of this so easily. So I did as I was told.
It was late in the night when I let myself fall down in my bed – sighing relieved that this 'trip to hell' – also known as training – was finally over!
I was lucky that I didn't DIE out there!
Actually I thought she would first test my abilities, but in that case I was totally wrong! The first thing she did when we arrived in the gardens was:
- Flashback –
Normal POV
A horrible shriek could be heard in the palace gardens at noon, followed from a surprised and slightly shocked cry.
Just in the last second, before the Faith could actually attack him, Yuugi was able to form the right barrier so that it wouldn't get too near to him.
He and Sigyn just arrived in this gardens and the girl didn't seem to want to lose any more time to chat or at least test the boy's true abilities.
"That should come much quicker! If I truly intended to kill you, you would be dead by now!"
Yuugi gasped in shock. That did seem to him, that she was about to kill him right now in this place – without any mercy! "Excuse me, but I thought you will be testing my abilities first."
Sigyn just scoffed. "Why should I? After all it was YOU who attacked me on the main street, wasn't it?" She smirked coolly. "You actually can summon a High-Aeon so I see no reason to waste my time with testing your abilities! I'm here to train you, so could kill! That is my intention, and I will not do anything else! Now prepare to spar!"
With that said, Sigyn launched another attack at the poor boy – only this time it was no Faith – or Aeon as Sigyn called them –, it was a spell and Yuugi quickly tried to change his barrier into one that didn't hold only Faith back, but that would be able to parry both – Faith and spells.
- Flashback end -
Yuugis POV
I sighed heavily again. And so it was going on the entire day... Only at dawn it got even worse.
"Sigyn surely is an evening-type..." I mumbled quietly to myself. Closing my eyes, I yawned. "Man ... this training really is wearing me out ... I never was THAT tired with the training my Master announced me to." I stretched my body – and yelped in pain when several knots loosened in my drained muscles. "That will REALLY hurt tomorrow..."
After this I wasn't really surprised to have no problems falling into a deep slumber, of whom I was sure I wouldn't wake up till the next morning.
Normal POV
Sigyn was walking through the corridors of the palace to reach the chamber she would be staying with Yuugi for a whole month. Though she didn't admit it, she was slightly impressed with the kid's skills. She didn't think that Yuugi would be able to live after this training session she gave him.
A light smirk placed on her lips she bumped into someone on her way. The person fell to the ground. One cold gaze later she recognized who it was.
"Prince, why are you out here so late?" she asked, but it didn't really matter much to her – she was just bored to hell and would like to go to sleep already.
At the female voice the prince looked up into turquoise eyes. Immediately he looked around for his friend, but couldn't see him anywhere. "Where's Yuugi?" he demanded to know.
Sigyn frowned at his attitude but answered anyway. "Asleep, I hope. If not there is a great chance he wouldn't make it through tomorrows training."
This time it was the prince who frowned. "Why are you so strict with him? Not even his master was THAT bad!" Against all of the actions he expected – laughter was at the VERY last end of his list. Confused he looked up at the girl. "I think I missed the joke..."
Instantly Sigyn caught her breath again. "I'm so stern with him, because if I'm not, he will definitely fail his last test!"
Atemu just snorted. "Again this test! What is it about anyway? He only told me that he will have to leave after this test!"
"You are his friend, aren't you?"
At this Atemu nearly shouted at her. He didn't care if he woke half of the palace in his attempt. "Of course I'm his friend!"
Sigyn smiled. A real smile this time. "Listen to me, young prince... I could tell you what the last test is, but there is a very high chance that you will dislike him when you know. That's why he didn't tell you anything more. And I don't care about your friendship-thing. So, do you still want to know?" Atemu nodded.
Again she laughed, but this time it was a very dry chuckle.
"He has to offer something very important to the Aeons he will use in this last test. He has to set all of his emotions as a price, so he can kill his very own master to become a High-Summoner."
Atemu gasped. THAT was it! "So... so he has to..." The prince was shocked and was not able to understand her sentences' clearly in this state.
She only nodded. "Yes, my prince. He has to train with me to shut all his emotions down so he is able to defeat his master in a month and take over his place."
To be Continued
A/N: wow ... that was ... pretty long xD actually I had this chapter ready for one week, but I was looking for a beta in this story ... at this I want to thank my friend Jessi who took her time to read this -hugs and kisses-
i hope there is any improvement in grammar in this chapter
So what did ya think? some of you might have even guessed that THIS will be the last test of Yuugi. Poor Yuugi has to be a murderer to become a High-Summoner... actually I'm not sure if I will let him pass his test...
(1)I have read somewhere, that Ra takes a day-tour on the sky as the sun and a night tour through the underworld, where he is accompanied by Osiris ... may be wrong, but here he is xD"
(2)I know, the Vikings didn't speak german at all, they probably spoke some kind of Danish, but I'm not that good at Danish, so please forgive me for the german parts in this story ... (I think there will be more later on) the thing in brackets is the translation, if some didn't notice xD"
(3)Yes... he thinks our dear Atemu is spoiled MANY times (as do I), but don't we like it somehow? xD"
Sigyn – probably the most complicated OC I EVER created ... but I like her somehow ... her names comes from the Germanic mythology. She was Loki's wife. (I saw her named Signy at some sites on the internet, too, but I prefer this name which I learned most) she will sty in the next two chapters, I think (if nothing strange happens and I have to change the plot Oo")
Fafnir – he finally got a name xD YAY! He's Yuugis master and his name is from the Germanic mythology, too... some might know him as the dragon that looked after the treasure of the Nibelungen (dunno, how they are called in English, I'm sooo sorry ... TT) after he killed his father, a giant, out of greed for the treasure. He was killed by Siegfried with his sword Garm and Siegfried took some of the treasure with him. The Ring of the Nibelungen might be a word for a search in wikipedia...
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