Z Star: I'M BACK! AFTER SURVIVING A WHOLE YEAR OF SCHOOL, I AM BACK BABY! Hehe.
Yami: Yeah, we guessed that.
Z Star: Aw, I am too happy to back! Do the disclaimer Yami!
Yami: Uh… ok… Z Star owns nothing but her OC's from her vivid imagination.
Z Star: You bet I do! Now lets get going peoples!
Chapter Nineteen: Vanishing Stars and Broken Fans
The girl in the blue robes stood at the bridge of the cliff, her hair dancing in the breeze. Clutched in her small hands she held a white fan, that contrasted with the red heart the was sewed into it.
"This is for you, Shinju." Her father told her. "When you find the man you think you will love, I want you to give to him. Your mother gave it to me, just before the beginning of summer. I hope you'll find a man who gives you so much bliss, that you are willing to give your heart to him."
But the boy who she thought made her happy, gave her bliss and then nothing but misery.
How could she give her heart away to someone who would bring saddenss to her? With only a few harsh words. There was only one solution. She wouldn't give her heart. If it was torn before it could be broken, it would save her from feeling this heart ache again.
With two quick strikes, the fan was broken in two, to fly away in the gust, along with the tears that would join the blue ocean sea…
"Guys! come quick!" Max's voice grew louder and louder, as the trio ran closer to the cave. Yugi, Yami and Misty came to a complete stop as the scene played infront of them.
There Ella layed on the floor, her eyes closed and had one hand clinged to her jade necklace, glowing beneath her palm. Sedmet stood over her, nudging her head to try and bring out a response. He failed greatly. Ash hovered above her, clinging to Ella with worry washing over him.
"Ella! Ella wake up!" Ash cried.
"What happened!" Misty demanded to know, inching closer to the pair.
"We don't know." May said. "When the rest of us came back from the beach, we found her unconscious by that shrine." She pointed towards the place of worship, the marble shrine stood strong and proud, its dark marble highlighting its mysteries, white streaks piercing its skin. A small jade gem was placed in the middle of the alter, white light glowing around its curves, mimicking Ella's necklace.
"Do you think she was attacked?" Yugi suggested.
"No she couldn't have been." Brock insisted, turning back to his normal self. "I was still inside the cave, I barely heard anything. I came out when I heard Ella fall and that was all I heard. And if it were an attack I would have saw someone or the purpatraitor would have left something behind. And I checked everywhere for remains!"
"Then why has she collapsed on the floor!" Ash snapped.
"It couldn't have just been nothing!" Sedmet growled. "Something or someone hurt my sister! And I want to get my hands on the jerk who did this!"
"All right, calm down. There has to be a reasonable explanation for this." Yami rationalised, putting a hand on Ash's shoulder.
"What! That Ella just decided to collapse and scare the heck out of everyone!" The capped boy snarled, gripping onto his loved one harder. "Whoever did this will pay! I'll rip them apart with my bare hands!"
"Looking for revenge won't solve anything Ash. We don't even know if anyone attacked Ella for sure!" Yugi countered. Misty stood there quietly, debating was the last thing on her mind. She was riddled with worry over one of her best friends.
Or was she?
The redhead felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end, something cosmic swelling up in her as she stared at Ella. That silent twinge in the air, it was a message, she was sure of it. Her friend was desperartely trying to reach her and tell her something, but what? What did Ella want to say? Did Misty even care? No. She was just glad that she was assured that her friend was going to be all right.
She was sheltered from the storm of arguments. The only thing that reached her ears was a gentle breeze hovering near her ears. She turned to face the gust and was taken aback by what she saw. There was a fan floating aimlessly in the air…
And it was broken into two pieces… Some poor soul probably lost it in all the commotion last night…
But soon it was in the air's clutches, the wind ripped the delicate fabric to pieces sending each shred of the fan into a dance, caressing the breeze disguised as Sakura blossoms.
"What's that?" Misty asked silently to herself. There was no time to question herself, as the confetti became more rapid, encircling the group in a deadly circle.
"Hey! What's going on?" Max asked, clinging to his sister. Everyone huddled closer to one another as the parade of frabic encricled us. Misty's heart beat quickened, so loud she thought everyone could hear her. Yugi must have heard her, because he must have known that linking his hand with hers would help wash away the fear.
But why was her heart still beating like a drum?
The shrine was in the corner was putting on a more elaborate light show, but it didn't compare to Ella's necklace.
"Oh no! We're wasting away!" Tracey gasped, looking down at his own body that was slowly turning transparent. The other's images had the same incentives in mind.
"Oh crap!" Gary swore, trying to look for a way out but failing. "We're doomed!"
"Hey, Takumi… Are floating fans supposed to turn into whirling vortexes?" Yukiko asked, watching the display over by the hills.
"No, why?"
"Because those kids are being trapped by one."
"WHAT!"
"Don't yell at me! Yell at the vortex!" Yukiko whimpered pointing in the groups direction.
"OH NO! Quick you moron, we've got to get into that vortex!" Takumi exclaimed, grabbing his brothers wrist.
"… You want to go into the whirling tornado of death? Wow, I am temporarily the smart one again." Yukiko grinned.
"If we don't get into that vortex, we won't be able to go home! We'll be stuck in this place forever!" Takumi explained, annoyed by his little brother's lack of memory.
"Oh!" Yukiko finally understood. "Uh-oh! If we don't hurry we'll never get back! And the boss will be mad!"
"That's what I said you idiot! Now lets go!"
"Are you sure we can go back? We didn't find anything, that will make the boss very angry."
"We'll worry about that later!" Takumi cringed, thinking of the punishments and torture that lied ahead for them. With a long run up to their destination, with a giant leap they were sucked into the firework display of silk.
In the distance a boy with tri-coloured hair sulked, kicking the dirt in his pathway. He was lucky to get away from the castle without any guards breathing down his back, but still, he felt no point in enjoying it.
He couldn't stop thinking about her…
I'm such an idiot! He growled, burning the dirt with his eyes. With every new kick, he kicked a little harder for some release. There was no one he could talk to about this, not even his father.
From his birth he was taught not to make any mistakes. None at all! And if he admitted he was wrong it would hurt his pride, his image and who knows what else.
If any of this got back to Egypt who would know what would happen. Would he be laughed at? Would he be shunned?
Who cares… I deserve it all…
Capturing him away from his thoughts, Chibi Yami heard a strong gust beating the air. He lifted his head and carried himself out of his sulleness to investigate it.
He came to a shroud of rocks that looked down at a cave. The prince gasped at the sight. There were a group of people huddled together encased in a horrible tornado. One of the strangly dressed people was knocked out unconscious and the others were in complete shock, too paralysed to do anything.
But what freaked out the prince the most, were the two flying demons being tossed around! Shrieking an animal cry!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'M GONNA PUKE!"
Hadn't the travellors noticed? Maybe they were some type of foreign animals the prince just hadn't heard of yet.
What am I supposed to do? Should I call for help?
But something came to the young boy's mind. Weren't the people who attacked the guards last night dressed like that!
But even before he could combat with his morals and what was the right thing to do, in a flash the group and the vortex was gone. No more. It went as fast as it came…
The quiet library stood there in silence, until it was welcomed with screams and shrieks. The painting that sucked the unlikely victims sprung them out of its world, not giving them an easy landing.
"Now falling and landing horribly has become my favourite hobby!" Gary shouted sarcastically, brushing himself off. However, the King of Sarcasm was ignored. Even in the treacherous winds, Ash held his lover tightly, to finally lay her out on the floor.
Everyone gathered around her to see how the girl would come out of this. She stopped glowing, that was definatly a good sign.
Her eyelids fluttered open, revealing two dark pools of mahogany. Ella gasped for air, her head spinning and around and around.
"Ella!" Sedmet exclaimed, hugging his sisiter from behind.
"Where… what h-happened?" Ella sighed, slowly lifting her head.
"We found unconscious." Ash told her, smiling at the girl. "What happened to you? You had us all worried." She returned the expression, before trying to remember everything.
"I don't know…" She began. "I outside the cave, when I found this shrine. All of a sudden, everything went bright and then… nothing. Everything went black."
"The shrine must have brought us back somehow…" Misty concluded, her eyes glued to the painting.
She had noticed a change…
The redheaded girl she had spotted playing with the other children was not by the sandy beach anymore… She stood on top of a hill, sad and lonely, and heart broken…
Why did she give his heart to him again?
"Oi vei!" Takumi groaned, rubbing his sore back. He stood over a shelf of books with his younger brother lazed on the other side. "Wake up Yukiko!"
"Urgh…" He groaned, pounding his palm into his face. "What the hell happened!"
"We're back in the present earth you idiot!" Takumi growled. "And we've got nothing to show for our AWFUL trip!"
"We still have the pan though!" Yukiko grinned.
"… THE PAN! THAT'S RIGHT! THE BOSS WILL BE HAPPY THAT WE BOUGHT SUCH A POWERFUL RELIC! YUKIKO I COULD KISS YOU!"
"Please don't!" Yukiko begged, sheilding himself with a book.
"The boss won't care that we brought back nothing, when we bring her the powerful relic, she can take over the world while those fools are under its control! We'll be free! Free!"
"As free as the wind goes, as free as the GRAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS grows!" Yukiko sang, earning another smack. "Ow!"
"Idiot!"
While the two brothers argued until dawn, it was still night at Misty's apartment. Everyone was inside, resting after the huge ordeal they had gone through. But the redhead sat out on the porch, staring up at the polluted sky, that had the stars ripped out of their place. It was nothing like back home… just like Yugi said.
I just don't get it! Misty snapped at herself. Shinju was a smart woman! Why would she fall for the same ass hole who broke her heart! Twice! It just doesn't make sense…I couldn't even find one damn clue that could make sense of all this! Damn!
She broke away from her thoughts, as the door squeked open by none other then the hand of Yugi Moto.
He looks gorgous in the moonlight…Misty thought, her cheeks darkening. She couldn't help but think back to their moment back on the beach, when their hands glided together…
Now she was being ridiculous! Hands gliding together… it sounded like something that came out of those love ridden, teenage stories you would read in your spare time.
"Hey…" Yugi greeted the girl. He had such a soft voice… Yugi was thankful that the dark cloaked them, or she would have seen him blush like a girl. He felt so flustered and stupid, for anxiously waiting for her reply.
"Hi…" Misty softly whispered. "… Yugi… I'm sorry about today… I mean to drag you and your brother into all of this! I mean, you two must have been so freaked out! I don't know how to explain it all, but you have no idea…" She stopped. A small finger pressed her lips, pausing them.
"Shh, it's all right." Yugi soothed her. "I've seen things like this before. Trust me. This was nothing compared to what I've been through." He grinned. His eyes were washed with sincerity… Misty half expected him to crazy and shout profanities at her…
But no… he understood…
"Me and Yami have to go now. But I'll see you again, right?" Yugi invited.
"… Yeah… sure…" With that, Yami just stepped outside, bidding his good byes and respects, walking ahead of Yugi.
"Oh and before I forget." Yugi said, before leaving. He dug into his pocket and picked out an object hidden by his hands. "I want you to have this… I found it at the Library and… I thought you might have been grateful for it." He bashfully handed the gift to Misty.
"Yugi I couldn't-"
"It's all right. Just don't open it before I leave." Yugi smiled, backing away into the night. "Good bye Misty…"
He was gone… She stared after him for what felt like hours, her heart being the only thing that was beating…
Finally she unlocked the gift in her hands and feasted her eyes on the beautiful trinket…
It couldn't be! Her mouth was agape.
This… this was a fan… crafted with white silk and decorated with a heart and chinese carvings… it was beautiful…
But she had seen it before.
It flew past flew towards her just this afternoon.
"This is… Could it be!" She exclaimed, excitement coursing through her. She yanked The Cascade Tear out of her jumper.
And the gem beamed brighter then any star that was above the sky that night.
"Arigatou Yugi..."
End Of Chapter Nineteen
Z Star: Yes I used breakers this time, to make my story a little neater. Who knows maybe I'll do that with all the chapters in the story. Sorry it's been so long but now I have my studies out of the way for now, I have more time to write! Hooray!
Yami: Oh no…
Z Star: Hehe, and Angel Star, I might be able to get you some character drawings! I might be able to make a deal with my parents to buy me a scanner! WHOOT! 9Starts playing guitar)
Yami: You can't play the guitar!
Z Star: I know but now I've got so much free time, I'm gonna learn to!
Yami: Oi vey…
Takumi: Will Z Star ever learn to play like Phoebe (Please God don't let her)
Yukiko: Will Misty and Yugi ever together?
Takumi: Was the fan Misty's first clue? Hello! Is anyone going to answer our stupid questions!
Yukiko: OH HERE WE GO! (Runs off)