Gotc: Ok. To recap what happened last chap, Yugi an everyone are all on Atlantis...or what's left of it. Why you ask? Read past the disclaimer and all shall be revealed...
Disclaimer: Gotc does not own YGO and hopes that none of you will sue.
Gotc: Now for the fic!
Chap 6: L et the Secrets Be Unleashed.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. How can dis place be Atlantis?" Joey said jumping up from the bushes, "We all saw Dartz drag dat place back under da sea! Besides, it was a whole city! Not a little island!"
"Joey!" Tea hissed at him, "We are supposed to be hiding!"
"You can't hide if someone knows where you are," Tristan said standing up next to Joey.
"A wise choice," Boran smirked
"According to a very reliable source," he said glancing at Ace with an odd smile on his face, "Not every Atlantean was doomed to sink beneath the waves as their home did. They escaped, and came here."
"That's enough Boran..."Ace growled cutting the wizard off short.
"Oh ho, hit a nerve did I? What's the matter with a little history lesson? I think your friends would like to here about your ancestors..." Boran's sneer could be seen even with the cloak over his head.
"Ancestors?" Yami gawked. It was finally beginning to make sense. "If they were your ancestors, then that means you're part Atlantean!"
"No...," there was a heavy tone in Ace's voice as he spoke, "Not part. I am Atlantean."
A hush fell across the island. Ace was still unable to meet anyone's eyes as they all stared at him.
/ How? Wouldn't he be really old or something/
/ He could be another spirit like Ironheart and Chris./
/ Yeah. But they never mentioned another Atlantean./
/ I don't know Yugi. Only Ace does.../
"Now now," Boran's voice called from across the field, "We've wasted too much time as it is digging up the past. Shall we begin this duel so that I may take possession of the items I desire?"
"Yes," Yami replied in a diplomatic tone, "but I think that you're forgetting one important thing. I can't duel you without my deck. And with my legs locked like this I have no way of getting it."
"You forget Pharaoh," Boran chuckled maniacally, "I posses magics forgotten to this day and age."
Yami could feel the hair on his arms stand on end, as Boran began chanting something he could not understand. Suddenly a tendril of magic snaked out from the stone around Boran's neck. It was an unearthly color that reminded Yami all too much of the shadow realm it resembled. Then, before he could react, the tendril wraped itself around Yami's left arm. But instead of staying there, it began to grow and take shap, until finally his duel disk was in it's place. Yami stared at it, deck and all there on his arm.
"Check your deck." Ace said falling in behind Yami.
Quickly, Yami flipped through his cards to find they were all there. He stopped briefly as he reached the cards Ace had given him only two months before. Could he really trust him? He had kept so much a secret from them. And now they were faced with another madman who wanted his puzzle, and that odd crest around Ace's neck. But this time it was different. Now Boran had all three gods, a fact which Ace obviously wasn't concerned about, but there was something else. His whole body was visibly on edge. He knew something was wrong, and expected it. Yami jammed his cards back into the slot and nodded to Ace, then turned to face Boran. He didn't know what he was getting himself into, but he couldn't let Ace face whatever it was alone. No matter what.
"Alright Boran. Enough talk. Let's duel."
Gotc: I swear that was the shortest chapters I have ever done. Oh well...I think I'll write another! Next chap posted soon!