Chapter 8
"Ok, so I'm still new to this whole Millennium Puzzle thing...but...that's not supposed to happen...right?" Iris asked looking really confused.
"Wait a minute, there are two Yugi's!" Kaiba yelled. Yami and Yugi were in shock, as they actually looked at each other eye to eye.
"Isn't one of you supposed to be in the puzzle?" Iris asked.
"I'm supposed to be." Yugi said. "I wonder what happened...I remember being in the puzzle and then all of a sudden I felt as if someone kicked me out and I fell on the ground."
"...ok...weird..." Joey said looking at both of them.
"I knew there was something weird about you!" Kaiba said. "So which one of you is the real Yugi and who's the other loser?"
"I already told you this," Tea walked up to the Pharaoh, "This is a 5000 year old Pharaoh that was trapped inside the Millennium Puzzle..." Tea points at Yugi. "That's Yugi."
"So all this time I've been dueling a 5000 year old dirt bag...so what is it? Are you just scared to really duel me...and which one is the real King of Games?"
"Um...glowing pyramids are bad too...right..." Iris said pointing at a large pyramid that was glowing a bright green color. Iris' necklace glowed again and Iris slowly walked towards the pyramid.
"Iris! Where are you going?" Tristan asked her.
"I feel like I need to go there...something in the bit of my stomach is telling me to go inside..." Iris told them. "If Marik and Ishizu are right then, I'm the only one that can stop Riku...you guys stay out here, or go home...I don't want you to get hurt. If something happens to me, at least you guys will be safe."
"No way." Yugi said. Iris stopped and turned towards them. "We know better than to let you go off all on your own. You may be the only one who can stop him, but at least we can help."
"But..."
"Listen, we've been hanging around Yugi too much to just turn on a friend when she's in trouble..." Tristan told her.
"Yeah! All for one and one for all!" Joey yelled laughing. Yami and Yugi nodded and Iris smiled.
"Alright then, come on!" The six friends headed for the pyramid with Kaiba close behind. Iris and the Pharoah were the first to poke their heads inside the pyramid and they first thing they heard was Riku laughing. They looked around the pyramid. The place was pretty much empty. On the other side of the room was a doorway and all around the pyramid were ancient hieroglyphics "This place looks familiar..." As they looked around, they saw Mokuba's body in the corner of the room.
"Mokuba!" Kaiba yelled as he ran to the body. Mokuba's eyes slowly opened.
"Seto?" In the room across from them the room began to glow the same bright green that was surrounding the whole pyramid. "Seto! You have to stop him, he's going to use something called the Chaos Heart to bring Exodia to life and destroy the world!"
"That doesn't sound good." Tea said. "Come on! We've got to hurry!" Yami said as the six friends ran across the room to the doorway. The room led to a flight of stairs going down. The six walked down the stair slowly.
"Wait a minute! I know this place! This is where I found that pyramid that sent me to this time period!" Iris exclaimed. "That pyramid must have something to do with all of this!" Iris started running down the stairs and every step they took, the bright green light got brighter. Iris was the first to get to the bottom of the stairs. She turned to where she saw the pyramid the first time and she was right. A man stood next to the small pyramid and was circling it, studying the ancient markings on it. The man was in a large black trench coat with red stripes going in several different directions.
"Well, well, well, what a pleasant surprise? It's the Pharoah and his girlfriend...oh and look they brought some other friends." Riku said evilly.
"Stay away from the pyramid, Riku!" Yami yelled.
"Why Pharoah, you don't even know what it is or what it does...how can you protect it if you don't even know what you're protecting..."
"He may not know what it is, but I do!" Iris yelled.
"You do?" The Pharoah asked turning to her.
"Of course, first off, I didn't lose my memory when I was transported to this time period, so I first learned about it from your father."
"My father?"
"Yup. I then recognized that the same pendant was around the neck of the statue of the Phoenix in the museum and it was all over that tablet. And then of course, there's my necklace, something I didn't notice before...on the back of my Phoenix necklace is a symbol that I remembered seeing on that very pyramid."
"So what...you know what it is...but do you know what it does?"
"Of course, even a four year old knows what the Chaos Heart does. In the hands of its master, it brings his deepest dreams to come true...wait...that's not good..."
"You're right again...though you were different. It was your destiny to get transported to this time so you could destroy me and stop me from destroying the world...too bad you're too late..." Riku pointed to the center of the floor. He had positioned the Exodia cards in the correct way, meaning that the head was nearest him and the arms were spread out a direct distance apart and away from the head and the same for the legs. Riku placed the Chaos Heart around his neck and raised his hands into the air. The ground began to shake.
"What's going on?" Iris asked.
"It feels like an earthquake..." Yugi said. Riku, the Chaos Heart, the floor and the Exodia cards glowed bright and Riku laughed. Around the cards appeared green circles and they were encased in a larger circle.
"This doesn't look good."
"Quick, everyone out of the pyramid, it's gonna collapse!" Yugi screamed. They all ran back up the stairs, grabbed Kaiba and Mokuba and ran outside the pyramid. Out of each of the smaller circles, a limb of Exodia seemed to just climb up out of the ground. The five limbs seemed to jump together and formed a tornado. Riku laughed as the whole pyramid seemed to be sucked into the tornado. Outside the friends stopped and turned back towards the pyramid.
"What's going on?" Tristan asked as the wind seemed to blow towards the pyramid.
"You don't think he's..." Yugi started as he looked up at the Pharoah.
"...He's bringing Exodia to life..." The Pharoah finished. The ground shook tremendously and a roar came from inside the pyramid. Everyone stood in shock as a huge Exodia pulled the top of the pyramid off and growled at them. On Exodia's right shoulder stood Riku and he laughed. Around Riku's neck was the Chaos Heart.
"You will never stop me! Hahahaha!"
"Ok, how the heck are we supposed to beat that?" Joey said looking at Yugi.
"Well..." Yugi thought for a minute, "Big or not, he is a duel monster...so maybe if we just summoned our own monsters..."
"But we don't have the Chaos Heart, you're attacks won't do any good against a real monster." Iris told him.
"And besides, our monsters aren't even half his size." Tristan said crossing his arms.
"I was just making a suggestion..." Yugi said smiling and putting his hand behind his head.
"Pharoah..." Iris said worried as she looked at him. Yami looked stunned, he'd never seen a duel monster that big before...and of all the monsters he had to bring to life, it was Exodia, the only other monsters that are stronger than him is...
"The god cards!" Yami blurted out.
"What!" Tea exclaimed looking at him.
"I bet we can beat him with the Egyptian gods."
"But Pharoah they aren't real, Exodia is." The Pharoah thought for a minute and then without tell any of the others he ran back inside the pyramid. They didn't even notice he left. "What are we going to do?"
"Well we can't just stand here and do nothing, that wouldn't help at all." Tristan said clenching his fist tightly. Iris saw Yami run in and chased after him. She found him in the room when Exodia first came to life."
"Pharoah..." Iris said again. Yami stood by the wall where they had first seen the Chaos Heart and he was looking at the hieroglyphics.
"There's gotta be something here that says something about how to beat him...if only I could read them." Iris walked up behind him and looked at them.
"An evil spell has been cast over this land..." Iris started reading them. "...Sometime into the future the evil one will come and free a mighty beast. Only three with the Phoenix can defeat him and only the Phoenix can set the land free from this evil curse..."
"You can read it?"
"Well I am from Ancient Egypt...you forget?"
"I wonder what it meant by three?" Iris had a look on her face that looked as if she was thinking it was plain simple.
"What about those...Egyptian god cards you were talking about...aren't they're three of them?" Iris asked. Yami pulled Slyfer the Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor and the Winged Dragon of Ra out from his cardholder on his belt and looked at them.
"Well we have the Egyptian gods...but how do we get the Phoenix?"
"Is that a card too?" Iris looked confused.
"I'm not sure...All I know is that it's some Ancient Egyptian bird, but sadly my memories of the time when I was Pharoah are clouded. Do you know anything about it?"
"No, well I mean I know about the Phoenix, but I don't know anything about summoning it."
"This isn't good, if we don't do something quick the whole world will be destroyed!" Yami exclaimed.
Well if you can't tell, i'm starting to run down on exciting things and sadly the story's almost over...sigh...seems like just yesterday I was creating Iris sniff sniff Well I hope you enjoyed it, cuz I sure did and don't forget to review!
