Chapter 16
Author's Note: Sorry it took me so long to update. I had to study for them AP exam, but I got this update. The story is slowly getting clos to a finish.
Tyriel knelt down. He looked at the black floor and all around him. It was all dark but he could see Sillva. He was very mad and upset with Tyriel. Tyriel just kept facing down.
"You pathetic fool!" he shouted. "You let her go!"
"I…"
"Are useless. You had her!"
"Yes…"
"And you knew that sword would strike you down!"
"Strike me down?"
"Yes you idiot, strike you down. You could have won! You could have been great!"
"I couldn't do it…" Tyriel whispered.
"Yes you worthless imbecile, and not only did you fail in winning but you…"
"Almost killed Alexis." another voice finished for him. Tyriel looked up and noticed Sillva was gone. He heard the voice from the behind. He turned around and saw a familiar face, or he should say puppet. It was Mysterious Puppeteer!
"Mysterious Puppeteer!" shouted Tyriel with some hope.
"Greetings betrayer." he answered. Tyriel's hope was wiped out.
"Don't call me that…" he said in a low voice.
"Well it's what you are, is it not? Obviously, betraying is not enough for you. Of course not, Tyriel Stone can't just betray someone, its not bad enough."
"What do you mean?"
"Well let's see, you betrayed your deck, past, but not only that but you pledged allegiance to Magnus. And if to make it worse, you pretty much killed Alexis! The only person who could rescue you!" The words You pretty much killed Alexis rang through her head.
"Did I…Did I kill her?"
"How should I know? Her bruise did seem pretty deep, and she lost a lot of blood that night. All because of you."
"How… do you know this?"
"I saw the duel. I also saw all the pain you gave to Alexis, however I also how you took responsibility for your action and took the punishments from the gods. Very risky move by Alexis, in my opinion."
"Is she okay though?" asked Tyriel.
"I truly don't know. I believe she was rushed to the emergency room, but I wouldn't know."
"Can I just wake up? I need to see her" said Tyriel with impatience.
"Is that so? What makes you so sure you are alive?"
"What do you mean?"
"Umm, the darkness. It means your unconscious, whether you are just sleeping, or in a coma, its all the same. You could even be in the Shadow Realm, which if I am not mistaken, is where you will end up by the end of tomorrow"
"How?" he shouted. The puppeteer started to respond but his words were a blur as well as everything else…
Tyriel opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Christy. He almost backed up off the shock and looked around noticing he was in the Nurse's room. However, he noticed Christy had the Egyptian eye symbol on her forehead.
"Hello again, Tyriel." she said, almost in an ancient tone.
"Greetings…Christina." he said. Christy was face seemed surprised and as the Egyptian eye faded she smacked Tyriel in the head.
"Ugh! I hate it when people call me Christina!" she said. Tyriel was confused but decided to just ignore the moment.
"Where am I?" asked Tyriel. Even though he knew the answer, he couldn't think of any other question.
"The nurse's room, you were pretty bad because of Alexis' Tainted Sword of The Gods thing." she said. Tyriel started remembering the whole duel.
"Now-w, S-S-Sillva, a-a-t-tack A-allllllexis!" he stammered. Everybody looked away. Sillva ran with his swords towards the battered Alexis. He withdrew his sword but just before he slashed her Tyriel shouted "STOP!". Tyriel feel to his knees, as he whispered "stop" again. Sillva turned to look at him. He was shocked that Tyriel had stopped the attack. Everyone as a matter of fact, was shocked. Tyriel couldn't deal with this so he knew the only way to stop it.
"I end." he said with a smile. And with that the sword came out of Sillva's hand, and since it had been touched with dark world hand, the sword had the same power as a dark world creature. The sword did a giant blast towards the ceiling. Then, similar to the spell card Dark World Lightning, a lightning came and struck down Tyriel. He screamed in pain as he fell unconscious. Alexis smiled as she fell unconscious too
He couldn't bear thinking about that duel. Sadly, he groaned.
"Where's Alexis?" he asked.
"I don't know how to tell you… but she was really bad when we got her here. She had lost a great deal of blood…" She said with a tad of sadness,
"Is she…you know…" he could bear say it.
"Hehe, gotcha. She is fine, we got her to ER fast enough, and she is just resting after the whole ordeal."
"Thank you gods" he whispered " You think I could…"
"No." he interrupted. "I think you should let her rest, at least for the night."
"The night?" asked Tyriel.
"Its 11 pm… most people are sleeping after the ordeal."
"So why are you here?"
"I am not sure, last thing I remembered was Rescue Cat was telling me something and…"
"A card was talking to you?"
"He is my duel spirit" she answered.
"I thought Aqua Spirit was your duel spirit?"
"No… Rescue cat is…. Anyhow, he was telling me something about going here, and I felt an urge to come here." she answered. Hmm…Rescue cat told her come here? But why would he? thought Tyriel.
"Did he say why he wanted you to come here?"
"He said there was something I needed to do, but I don't know." she said. Hmm Rescue Cat? Why wouldn't it be Aqua Spirit? There must be something I am missing… thought Tyriel.
"Oh…" said Tyriel.
"Well I think Rescue Cat was off today, so I will see you tomorrow I suppose." she said
"Yeah good bye I guess."
"Bye." she said as she left. Tyriel started to think about many things. However, it was until now that he forgot to ask her for the Millennium Scale. Man, I am really messed up here. thought Tyriel and he knew what he had to do…
…
4 PM
"Finally class is over." said Jaden as he, Bastion, Syrus, and Christy left class.
"Should we pay Alexis a visit?" asked Syrus.
"Yeah we should. C'mon lets go." said the group.
"She is not in her room." said a voice. The group turned around and saw Jasmine.
"Where is she?" asked the group.
"I heard she went visit Tyriel."
"Thanks"
So the group went to towards the nurse's room, just to stumble, unto a frustrated Alexis and frustrated nurse.
"Where could he have gone?" asked the nurse.
"I don't know its your office!" said Alexis.
"What happened?" asked Bastion.
"He is gone. Tyriel is gone." answered both Alexis and the nurse.
"We have to find him." said Christy. Everyone looked at her. "Magnus will obviously be looking for him, now that he has the scale."
"Magnus has the scale?" shouted Alexis.
"Yeah, after both you and Tyriel lost consciousness, everybody was too preoccupied to realize that Magnus was slowly sneaking to the Scale and grabbed it."
"Then we have to find him. Let go try and find him."
The group looked for hours but couldn't find him, the sun was starting to set, but evil was starting to rise. Magnus was mad and he decided it was time for action. This time, no one shall escape my wrath! thought Magnus as he summoned his Ka, Mobius the Frost Monarch and they started walking towards the center of duel academy.
Meanwhile, Tyriel was standing on the top of a ridge, watching the sun set. The ridge gave him a flashback.
He saw himself walking down, being controlled by Magnus. He was about to throw his old deck when something stop him. He felt he shouldn't as his Millennium Key glowed. So he set his cards in a little hole in the ground.
Tyriel looked at the hole in the ground. His cards were still there. He grabbed them, and stared into the sunset. I failed thought Tyriel. No you haven't. This thought surprised Tyriel so much that he almost fell in the ridge. Tyriel turned around and notice Aqua Spirit standing in front of him. Tyriel was dumbfounded.
"Aqua Spirit?" he said, disbelieving.
"Greetings, Tyriel. I am glad you remember me." she said in his head. She must be using Telekinesis thought Tyriel. "Yes I am."
"You can read my thoughts?" asked Tyriel.
"Yup, I can read your thought of failure too."
"Not much I can do eh? I tried my best, but I failed." answered Tyriel.
"Who says you failed? You can still succeed, you just have to go there, and stop Magnus once and for all."
"But how can I stop one who even my father couldn't stop?"
"Your father was, or I should is, half a person. You are full, you can defeat Magnus."
"Half a person? How is that possible? And what do you mean is? Are you saying he is.."
"Young Tyriel, do not focus on these things now. You might learn the truth about your father someday, but there are more important things at hands. Like stopping Magnus. He in his way, and he is armed with Shadow Magic."
"Okay, but why are YOU telling me all of this."
"Because having frozen popsicle versions of everybody in this academy isn't something I want."
"What do you mean?"
…
"Jasmine!" shouted Alexis as she noticed her friend was frozen. Everybody had been scattered looking for Tyriel and she was alone. He tried to help her but she noticed the ice was really solid. "Jasmine what happened?"
"I did." said a voice. Alexis turned to the side and noticed Magnus, and Mobius the frost Monarch standing there. "Now, its your turn. Mobius, Ice blast!" The monarch raised his hand and shot a blast of ice towards Alexis. Alexis jumped to the side. Then she started running towards a hallway, with Magnus not far from her tail. As she ran she noticed many people had turned to frozen figures. As she ran, she also noticed tons of ice blast coming from behind hitting the sides then she turned her head back and noticed an Ice blast directly at her. However just before it hit her, a figure pulled her into a small black room. Alexis had so many question she couldn't decide which one to ask first, however she noticed Jaden, Syrus, Bastion, were there.
"What's going on!" shouted Alexis.
"We don't know" said Syrus. " Looks like Magnus is pretty mad."
"No duh!" shouted Alexis. "What are we gonna do?"
"We don't know, we truly don't." said the group, suddenly the door busted opened, revealing Magnus and Mobius.
"Checkmate." said Magnus as Mobius lifted his arm to blast. However just before he blasted Syrus jumped and hugged with his entire body Mobius' large gauntlet. The blast froze Syrus and it created a giant ice ball on Mobius hand. The ice ball consisted of Syrus, and tons of ice. It was so heavy that it pulled Mobius' arm down. The group was shocked, but they knew they had to run. Magnus was really angry now. He and Mobius ran, however Mobius was greatly slowed down by the giant ice ball on his hand. Magnus made Mobius shot ice blast with his other hand but his aiming was horrible. As the group reached the forest, they stopped running because of tiredness, they noticed Magnus and Mobius were not following them. Jaden was sad.
"Syrus…" he whispered.
"It will be okay Jaden, he is just frozen. I think once we defeat Magnus, everyone should return back to normal." said Bastion.
"I hope so." said Jaden. Then someone shouted his name, and as he turned around someone tackled him. Just as he fell, a giant ice blast passed over his head, missing him completely. Jaden noticed it was Christy who had tackled him.
"Would you stop getting in my way, little girl?" said Magnus appeared from the shadows in the trees.
"Never! You will never win Magnus. Get over it." she said.
"Really? I wanna see you stop this. Mobius, Ice Blast!" said Magnus as a giant ice blast appeared, heading their way then the blast just…stopped. The blast stood in midair then it was dismantled and broke up. "What kind of magic is this?"
"The same as yours, Shadow magic." said a voice from the shadows. Everybody turned towards the owner of the voice.
"Tyriel!" shouted Alexis. Tyriel smiled as his Millennium Key glowed.
"I think it's time we finish this, Magnus." he said.
"Me too. Mobius do your…what's going on?" said Magnus as his Millennium Eye started to glow a lot. Then dark energy seemed to be coming from. It was the same thing from Tyriel's Millennium Key and the Millennium Scale in Magnus cloak. They were all emitting high contents of dark energy.
"It must be the unbalance of the shadows!" shouted Tyriel as everything around them turned dark. The grass became like a floor, pure black. The background to be dark and gloomy.
"Where are we?" asked Bastion.
"Ha, Welcome to the Shadow Realm." said Magnus.