(a/n: I'M ON A ROLL! isn't acctually "on a roll" is just in the mood to write more well, sorta... swetdrop but, i am trying to finish this story because i have an RK fic i never finished crying because she forgot about that one but, i've got the grand finale in my head, how it'll end, anyhow)
---Shadow Realm---
"I refuse to loose now! I know what Lyman loves most of all in this world, and that's dueling! He wants this academy to be safe and he'll go to any extreme to save it, so I will, too." Her voice was soft and serene as another tear found it's way down her right cheek. "I am Expiriment 7734! I fell in love and I will risk my own life to save the thing that the person I love cares most about! This is all I've been waiting for! I won't let you destroy Lyman's dreams! His heart... or his soul. I won't let you crush what little he has left. I am also the one who can weld each Key together! I can open the seven gates with ease! You want those beasts? GO THROUGH ME FIRST!"
Banner stared at 7734's back in amazment. How did this girl know his name? His real name at that! He suddenly felt his chest tighten as he hear her words ring true. He would risk his life to save this academy... but he also loved this girl who called herself 7734, Expiriment Hell. He felt it tighten even more as she flew past him, Millenium Celtic Guardian protecting her from the fall. It took him a moment, but he finally whirrled around to see her and Celtic Guardian, she rising to her feet, not done with this "Amnel" fake just yet. He saw that look in her eyes and his own eyes widened.
---flashback---
"No! Stop it! Your going to kill him!"
"He's already dying, Amnel!"
"No! 7734! Stop!"
The gun went off and Amnel fell to one knee, his long, white hair falling from it's broken string that usually held it up. He saw blood coming from his arm and he could no longer stop 7734 from shooting Professor Banner. He looked up at her serenely soft face and saw it.
One eye was blue the other was red. Her eyes gave her an air of distinct evil and kindness. It was almost like she was two people at once. She raised the gun and Professor Banner lowered his own gun.
"You wanna shoot me? Shoot me."Professor Banner put the gun on the table beside him and lowered his arms so they dangled at his sides. "But, I'd perfer it that you not shoot me in front of Amnel. I adore him like my son and it's almost time for me to merge with him. If you wish to kill me, do it without the violence it requires." He stepped closer and she pulled the hammer down, her eyes growing cold. "I know what you seek, 7734. I can't help you find love, only you can..."
"Then let me kill you with poison, sir."
"Please, call me Lyman. And you may as well start calling Amnel that as well."
"Sorry, Lyman." She dropped the gun and it went off, shooting her in the leg.
---end flashback---
She was going to kill...
Celtic Guardian lay there, his eyes closed, groaning, as blood pooled beneath him. 7734's eyes consisted of the right being blue and the left being red, just like before. She slowly began to walk forward, her trench coat sweeping out to reveal the scar from the bullet on her leg and the markings of a whip around her upper arms and the scars and cuts she hid beneath the jeans.
"So, you want to fight me with Shadow Magic, is that it?"
"Far from it, old man." She raised her hand and summoned forth her Egyptian Puppet Master Mokuba, and Egyptian High Preist Seto. "I have many more monsters to kill off all of yours! I'll show you the meaning of 'crypt keeper of the shadow's summons'!" There stood Egyptian Theif Bakura, Egyptian Wiseman Million, Egyptian Pharaoh Atem, Wise Egyptian Advisor Shadii, and Egyptian Tomb Keeper Ra. "The seven Millennium Items shall be restored by the time I'm done with you!"
"Hate to burst your bubble, but I only see six. The Ring, Key, Rod, Puzzel, Eye, and Scale. I don't see no Necklace, girly."
"Look again." She pointed at Egyptian Puppet Master Mokuba.
It shimmered around the boy's neck. He stood beside his brother, holding Seto's hand and looking utterly scared of this "Amnel".
"Aw! I'm running out of pure spite! He's not scary."
"Tell me, what's your name?" It was Haruka's voice. She wiped away her tears and stood firm, as if she'd made up her mind on something very important. "I want to know. Did you know me when I was a human girl? Did you know me when I still had a human soul?"
He fell scilent. "If I knew you, I don't remember you. Maybe I'll tell you my name." He reached up and pulled down his hood. Golden locks fell down his back. "But you look so much like my late wife." The mask came off and Amnel was revealed. His smooth, pale skin seemed to give him the air of an elf. His eyes were teal colored. "She had black hair and had soft blue eyes. My name is Yasgiloth Tenoh. I don't think your related to me if your last name is 'Kaiba', Haruka." He smiled innocently. "I'm sure there's a reason you are here, but there's no way of knowing how you got to this point or how you managed this long, but there is such thing as being in a place for a reason. Do you see the bigger picture?"
"No."
"Ah, just like you mean nothing, you think everything is the same..."
"Same?"
"Everything is not the same. Clones are not identical to the original. Twins aren't exactly the same. Memories can be copied but not be as strong as the original. In another dimention, you may already be dead, so you see death, but it's still not the same thing. Seeing things is not the same as experiencing them. You are not someone else unless you have strong memories of being that person... Do you understand?"
"Y... no..."
He shook his head. "I look like an elf, yes?"
"...yeah?"
"I'm not. I'm only young because I've cast magic on myself. Understand?"
"... sorry, I'm simple-minded... I don't understand..." 7734 scratched her head with her right hand. "So I can be someone and know I'm someone else?... I don't get it, sorry."
He almost fell over in shock. "Erm, just forget it. So, erm, you gonna fight me?"
She socked him in the face squarely. "DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT! What the f--- did you mean?" she asked, shaking him like crazy, seemingly knocking his head off.
"Then I suppose we should finish this..." He blew her back with a blast of energy. "If you really are Expiriment 7734, you should be able to kill me with one finger. I remember Professor Lyman Banner saying something about a great force he made by mistake... I suppose your numbers are what he was trying to say before he had to hang up the phone... C'MON! KILL ME, YOU BRAT!"
She twitched. "B-brat?" She suddenly picked up one of the larger monsters she had and, by hand, threw it at him, a blast of shadow magic blowing him back. "Who ya callin' a brat, you sicko?" She blasted him back, her hands becoming blurs as she repeatedly punched him. "You want Duelist Academy for your own sick perpouses! You want my help to unleash the sacred beasts for your master Amnel! You want to destroy this world! What is wrong with you Shadow Riders? You got a crack in your skull somewhere? Or are you mentally insane? This place is a place of salvation for those with dueling skills! I can't just let you take that away! Not to mention this is Lyman's dream! His dream! I won't let you kill that dream! I swore I'd keep that smile on Lyman's face! And that's a promise I'm going to keep!"
BOOM!
The explosion of Shadow Magic Vs. Shadow Magic shook the earth.
---flashback---
"Lookie, lookie, lookie!" Haruka tugged on Lyman's coat tail and pointed at a shooting star. Amnel and Lyman looked. Haruka was only twelve, but the slightes things entertained her. She smiled warmly.
"Ah! Amnel, Haruka, make a wish!" Lyman said this as he made a wish.
"Do I say what my wish is?" Amnel asked so pleasently.
"I wished for a day when Haruka and Amnel will find happiness. It's not like a birthday wish, Amnel, it's ok to tell if you want to." Lyman smiled as his pet kitten came over. "Ah! Pharaoh, there you are!" He smiled.
"I wished for a loved one who has a heart full of kindness and joy to come and sweep me away to her world." Amnel sighed and looked down-hearted. "But, that's never going to happen."
"I wished to see Lyman and Amnel smile for ever and ever and ever and ever!" Haruka suddenly ran ahead with Pharaoh. She took a running leap and lept over a hedge and landed in the fountain near the hedge. "Wah! I got Pharaoh wet! I'm sorry, Pharaoh!" She smiled at Lyman and Amnel. "I know! I'll make it a promise! I promise to protect Lyman and Amnel's smiles!" She laughed merrily, not knowing that that day she would never see Lyman again...
---end flashback---
Banner stared at the dust as it began to clear away. Was that really her? Was that the same girl who made a promise she couldn't keep? Was that really the girl who made him feel happy? No, it couldn't be, because the memories of before he was given the soul of the Professor, he was always with a girl who had sterling blue eyes, but that promise...
"I made a promise! I plan on keeping that promise to Amnel! To Lyman!" She said, rising to her feet as the dust and smoke cleared away, dustingoff her jeans."I made a promise I couldn't keep back then. But I will keep it to the man named Lyman Banner! I made a promise to him! A promise to someone I loved! But with these hands, I killed the one I loved. With these hands, I poisoned him in his sleep. But I hadn't know that his soul lived on like so." She lifted her left hand to reveal the bare flesh. Her eyes were crying, both Haruka and 7734 were crying. Both of their voices came out. "I killed the man I loved when I was a girl. I won't fogive someone who tries to destroy Lyman's favorite thing in the whole world. Lyman and Amnel. Two men I will never forget won't have a reason to cry!"
Her hand came down and an explosion went off. The blast cracked the air and there was the sound of flesh being torn. It was almost as if the whole of the world was being crushed in an instant...
