The Legend of the Serpentine
A/N: This is a crossover story between YGO 5D's, Teen Titans, and Star Wars I did on Deviantart
Rain and thunder fell outside of Titans Tower that one night. On the couch sat Ahsoka Tano, still recovering from her emergency surgery, and the brutal Operation Nightfall. She tossed and turned and found it generally hard to sleep with the IV sticking out of her arm. "Uggghhh..." she moaned as she turned over and pressed a button on her T-Communicator.
Mere minutes later, Raven entered the room and looked at the Tortugan, and her girlfriend. "What's up Sok-Sok?" She asked, sounding freindlier than usual.
"I can't sleep with this thing." She said pointing to the IV.
"I see...how about a story to pass the time?" Asked Raven.
Ahsoka gave a skeptical look. What was she a child?
Raven materialized her book before the two and found the most recent topic she was reading on. "Here it is...THE LEGEND OF THE SERPENTINE..."
'Before man walked the Earth, the Serpentine ruled the Earth. They were broken off into five tribes: the Hypnobrai, the Fangpyre, the Venomari, the Constracti, and Anacondria. Each tribe had an aspect that would differentiate them from the others. Though aggressive and always battling for the power, the Tribes became oblivious to the rise of man. The Serpentine came into conflict with man, and wanted them ERADICTAED. The tribes banded together under the rule of the fabled Snake king: Pythor. Pythor was cruel and effective, launching campgains of unspeakable brutality at man. It seemed that man was doomed, until they came into conflict with the Romans...and Caesar. Caesar himself saw to their defeat, he banished the tribes to various locations all over Europe and the world, and imprisoned all four of the Serpentine Generals and King Pythor in forms of stone, to never do harm again...it is believed that if any mortal wanders into the resting place of the Serpentine leaders, and says the cursed words...the snakes will once again return and exact their vengeance'
By now Ahsoka had fallen asleep. Raven weakly smirked as she yawned and left the book on the table as she went back to her room for the night.
Elsewhere...
The Enforcers were crashing at Yusei's apartment. Ever since they all helped save New Domino City from every threat the enemy threw at them, the city government bought them new places to live. No longer did they have to steal from the rich to survive, nor did the city treat them like criminals. They were treated like heroes.
Yusei, Jack, Crow, and Kalin decided to pass the evening by playing video games. None of them were particularly great at them, but they were only doing it for the laughs. None of them had this much fun in years.
However, little did any of them know, they would have to save the world once again.
Outside, a small purple snake watched them, and began to maneuver its way into the house. It slithered past some of their junk food and simply watched them enjoy themselves.
They were playing Super Smash Bros. Switch and having a great time. Crow was playing as Luigi and knocked Jack off the edge of the arena.
"Damn it!" cursed Jack. "I'll get you for this!"
"Ha ha! Come and get me!" laughed Crow.
The Snake narrowed its eyes as it slithered forward some more now. It was now near the couch they were sitting on.
"Calm down, Jack and Crow. It's just a game," grinned Yusei. He moved towards the couch with the snake.
The Snake simply locked eyes with him as he leaned over to get some more food. It's small red pupils locking with his.
"Yusei gasped in shock when he saw the snake. "What the-?! What's a snake doing in my house?!"
It blinked back and began to slither off, almost leading trying to lead him somewhere.
"Did you leave the window open, Yusei?" asked Crow.
"Wait, guys. I think it's trying to tell us something," said Kalin.
It blinked a bit and locked eyes as it indicated it wanted them to follow it.
"Uh, what's it doing?" asked Jack.
"It wants us to follow him," replied Kalin.
It watched them still and waited for them to leave with it.
"I guess we have no choice. Let's go," said Yusei.
The snake led them at a quick pace, even sometimes making them break into a jog to keep pace with it. Eventually they were led to what looked like a series of ruins. The Enforcers were completely baffled when they saw the ruins.
"I don't remember ever seeing this before," stated Crow.
They were older, definitely dating the English colonies by a few centuries even. There were many hieroglyphics and such, the snake was on what looked like a panel, and it motioned them to it.
"Hieroglyphs? I wonder who built them?" asked Yusei.
"We've dealt with this kind of stuff before. This can't be any different than the Nazca Lines," scoffed Jack.
The snake made a small hiss as it motioned them to the small pressure plate in one of the columns. Yusei suddenly got a phone call from Akiza. When he saw her name and number appear on the screen, he sighed and tapped the 'Accept' key. Akiza wasn't someone who should be messed with.
"Yusei? Where did you and the others go?! I thought you were at home!" shouted Akiza.
"Uh, sorry Akiza. I can explain..."gulped Yusei nervously.
The Snake began to get aggressive and hiss louder as it moved its eyes between them and and then panel.
"There's something about this panel that's making this snake act strange," said Kalin.
"What should we do about it?" asked Crow.
The Snake gave an 'unamused face' as it began to try to push the panel, which it was very unsuccessful at.
"Do you need help snake?" asked Crow. He tried pushing the panel himself.
The Snake didn't respond as the floor panels began to descend and made a downward spiraling staircase.
"Whoa! A staircase!" yelled Crow.
"This is nuts!" stated Jack.
They followed it down and dealt with a few more obstacles here and there before coming across some kind of crypt. In it were four statues of what appeared to be snake humanoids, and some kind of vault behind the four. The Enforcers were confused by the statues.
"Snake-humans?" asked Crow. "Who are they?"
"Not only, that. There also appears to be something behind them too," said Yusei.
The Snake now motioned them to a very small snake idol in the exact center of the room. It's 'face' now seemed a bit sinister.
"An idol? Does the snake want us to take it or something?" asked Jack.
"I'm not sure if that's a good idea," said Kalin. "Something seems off."
The idols eyes glowed a bit now, evidently being made from both gold and crystal!
"Man, if we take it though, imagine how rich we'll be though!" exclaimed Crow.
The temptations rose as the idol seemed to glow an even brighter shade of gold. Yusei is hesitant. "I agree with Kalin. It looks too good to be true."
The snake then bit Yusei! In the reflex he accidentally knocked the idol off its stand, and shattered it. Purple substance emerges from the broken model and begins to swarm small canals leading to the statues!
"Yusei!" cried the other team members. They stepped back in horror as they saw the strange purple substance.
The vile elixir began to make parts of the statue glow around it. The creatures in the statue now began to look less stone and more lifelike then before.
"What did you do to it, Yusei?!" snapped Jack.
"I swear I did not do anything!" retorted Yusei. "It moved on its own!"
The statues were really coming to life now as they heard more hisses and saw the statues eyes glow. It would be definitely be a good time to take cover or hide.
"I think it's time that we run from this place," said Kalin. He activated his duel disk just in case.
The statues were now fully organic once more, and the four multi colored snakes dropped to the ground.
"It issss truly magnificent...I thought it would be eternity until we were releasssed" said the Green one.
"But why now have we returned?" Asked the black one.
"Skalidor...it is obvious it isss the Age of the Ssserpentine once more" said the Blue one. "We were dessstined to return, and now that moment hassss arrived, perhapssss a kinsssman was freed and returned to usss."
"Or...it is that we were simply released by a misguided fool" said another. The vault has now opened and all the trio would see were two red eyes, accompanied by the body of Pythor.
The four Generals bowed to their leader.
"What the hell?! They're alive?!" exclaimed Jack.
"We really shouldn't have trusted that snake!" yelled Crow.
Yusei and Kalin gritted their teeth as they tried to come up with a plan. Their first plan was to summon monsters, however, they were concerned it would put too much strain on Kalin's body.
"At ease Generals..." said Pythor, speaking with his inconceivable English accent and Anglican speech. The snake from before slithered to him and he smirked. "And I do have a feeling, my fellow acolytes...that those who brought us back, are STILL HERE."
The Enforcers felt uneasy by their mannerisms and decided it was best to flee as quietly as possible. Yusei gave one last look to see Pythor disappear before his eyes. The Snake King reappeared before the Enforcers as they were about to exit. "And what do we have here my fellow serpents...MERE CHILDREN?" He mocked.
"Damn it!" they all muttered under their breaths.
Yusei stepped up first. "We aren't here to fight you! We were merely exploring and conducting research!"
Pythor narrowed his eyes and saw through the lie. "And what are you exactly researching boy?"
Yusei tried to hide his fear. "Ancient civilizations, sir!"
"And who would possibly know of the SERPENTINE?" He asked. He was aware now that the lie was breaking. The other four Generals had now encircled them.
"A snake led us here!" stated Yusei. He wasn't sure what else to say, as none of his friends heard of The Serpentine before.
Pythor smirked as he hissed a bit. "So...you try treating me as a fool and lie to me?" He mocked trying to scare them.
"Who are you freaks anyway?!" snapped Jack.
"We..." he chuckled a bit to himself. "We are the Serpentine" said Pythor. "The rightful rulers of this realm."
"Rightful rulers?" asked Yusei.
"Then how come we never heard of you guys before?" asked Crow.
"Becausssse you apessss have long forgotten the Ssserpentinr wars of old" hissed the Blue one, who they now knew was named Skales.
"Uh, sorry, to disappoint ya, Mr. Scaly Guy, but we've never heard of your society before," said Crow. In a way he was right, as none of the Enforcers formally went to school.
"As expected..." said Pythor. "Arrogant young fools dabbling with powers they don't understand...ultimately DOOMING THEM!"
"Powers?" asked Kalin. "What do you mean by that?"
Pythor threw them before the snake generals. Fangtom looked at Jack and prepared to bite him.
"Look out Jack!" yelled everyone.
At that moment, Kalin activated his psychic aura. "Yusei! Crow! Let be borrow your monsters! The two nodded, but Kalin decided it was best to start on the defensive first.
"I activate the trap, Infernity Barrier!"
Fangtom hissed as his teeth hit the barrier. "How clever...sssss"
back. "As a psychic in our midst?"
"That's right. I am what they call 'The Death God'", glared Kalin.
Yusei gave him Stardust Dragon and Crow gave him Black-Winged Dragon.
Pythor glared a bit as he simply did a hand motion. Skalidor quickly drilled down from where he was. He then popped back in their barrier and began to attack with his staff.
Kalin used his power to bring Yusei's and Crow's dragons to life.
"Take flight, Stardust Dragon!"
"Soar to power, Black-Winged Dragon!"
Skalidor then used his deadly tail and wrapped it around Kalin, beginning to literally STRANGLE him.
Skalidor noticed and hissed at them. "One sssstep more and I kill the child"
"E-every-one...I'm...sorry..."muttered Kalin.
"No! We won't leave you, Kalin!" yelled Yusei.
"Very well..." said Pythor who was now clapping. "I will give you ONE CHANCE...don't interfere with our plans...and we won't KILL you"
The Enforcers all gritted their teeth and nodded.
"You better keep your promise," growled Yusei.
"Me, break a promise...the great Pythor P Chumbsworth NEVER goes back on his word" evidently a lie.
"Yeah yeah, whatever you say, snake guy," grumbled Jack.
"Now LEAVE..." he watched them leave before turning to his Generals.
"We cannot Keep then alive Pythor..." began Skales. "We musssst deal with them."
"Correction my lacke, I will deal with them...you have OTHER tasks!" Pythor. pulled down a tapestry, revealing each location of the four Serpentine tombs.
The Enforcers began walking out of the tomb. Yusei and Jack held Kalin by his shoulders to support him.
"Are you alright, Kalin?" asked Yusei.
"I'm fine, thank you," groaned Kalin.
Pythor had turned invisible and followed them home. Getting home wasn't a relief for the boys as they now had an angry wife to deal with. Akiza was seething with anger at the men when she saw the scrapes on bruises on them, especially on Kalin.
"Yusei! Guys! Where did you go?! I was worried sick about you all night and you didn't answer my phone calls!"
"Akiza...you're right. You have every right to be upset..."sighed Yusei.
"We can explain..."muttered Kalin.
Pythor grinned as he let himself in to their home. He listened to their argument from a distance.
"It all started when the four of us were playing games. You know, normal, everyday stuff," started Kalin.
"Suddenly, I noticed a snake on our couch. The snake couldn't speak human, but it sounded like it was trying to tell us something," added Yusei.
"The snake led us to some strange ruins that we never saw before," continued Crow.
"But before we could study them, huge monstrous snake demons attacked us!" finished Jack.
Azika was having none of it. She had the most unamused face ever.
"So, let me get this straight. You four followed a strange snake to a cave you never heard about and got ambushed by monsters?"
They comically nodded in unison. Little did they know Pythor was now inside and in the living room.
Akiza sighed in disbelief. "You four are so reckless." She went up to Kalin, who looked the most out of shape, and began using her healing powers on him.
He would still have some of the marks from Skalidor. Yusei and Jack went into another room and were shocked by Pythor standing in their living room!
Yusei and Jack jumped in terror when they saw Pythor.
"Y-you! What the heck are you doing in our house?!" yelled Jack.
"How did you follow us?" growled Yusei.
"It's not that complicated...you are very obnoxious" he said. "And WHY am I here...well I can't have you go and spewing out secrets everywhere!" His eyes seemed to turn a shade darker as he stared them down.
Akiza was horrified. "Is that one of those monsters you were talking about?!"
Kalin tried getting up, but his body still ached from the previous fight. "Leave Yusei and Jack alone!"
Pythor simply laughed. "Hehehe...nice and afraid!" He hissed. His staff shined against the light now as he stood in more of a predatory pose, his long neck bending a bit.
Yusei was horrified that Kalin might get wounded further, or even worse, get killed for the third time.
"Kalin! Don't do this! We'll handle him!"
"Oh but do Kalin!" mocked Pythor. "You should be honored at receiving a death from ME!"
"Only if you can beat me!" A dark purple aura enveloped the leader and his face became shrouded by the shadows of his bangs. His eyes also appeared to glow gold.
"Kalin! What do you think you're doing?! You're not fully healed!" cried Akiza.
"It seems this snake has fully awakened the 'Death God', muttered Yusei.
Pythor smirked "oh my...I'm PETRIFIED!" He sarcastically said.
Kalin glared at Pythor but said nothing. Instead, he drew the top card of his deck, looked at it, and smirked evilly.
Pythor hissed as his teeth now showed a bit as he looked at Kalin. "And what is your mere card going to do?"
"You'll soon see. I summon Infernity Doom Slinger!" The card glowed and a demonic-looking biker with a skull mask appeared. Pythor blinked a bit as he saw this happen.
"Let's play a little game, snake. You guess what type of card is on the top of my deck. If it's a monster, Infernity Doom Slinger will hit you for massive damage. But if it's a spell or trap, I take the damage instead. Or you can refuse all together. So, what will it be, snake?"
Yusei and the others stood back in disbelief.
Pythor stroked his 'chin'. "My my man has become cowardice in these past millennia...having other creatures battle for you!" He hissed as he turned invisible. He reappeared behind him and hissed some more. "I will accept your little game boy..."
"Very well. I draw!" Kalin closed his eyes and slowly drew the top card of his deck.
"Is he crazy, playing Russian Roulette?!" yelled Jack. "What if he fails?"
"He's done this before. He can do this. We just have to believe in him!" said Yusei.
Python focused a bit. "I believe it is a...trap card?" He asked.
Kalin drew the card and smirked. "I'm afraid luck is on my side today. For it is a monster! Infernity Doom Slinger, sling him!" The demonic gunman aimed its gun at Pythor and fired.
"YAHH!" Said Pythor as he dodged. He had a quick breather before he was shot against the wall, causing a frame to fall. He began to cackle a bit.
"No way! it didn't work!" exclaimed Crow.
Kalin glared at Pythor. The dark aura and shadows surrounding him made it difficult for his friends to tell how he was feeling.
"Hmm, it seems you survived my attack. But that only prolongs your suffering. Are you ready for Round 2?"
"Actually, I think it's MY TURN!" Said Pythor, a half growl/hiss. He turned invisible, appeared behind Kailin and slashed at him with his Serpentine staff.
"Gahh!" yelled Kalin as he clutched his shoulder.
"Kalin!" yelled everyone.
"Alright! I can't stand around and do nothing! It's time you fight two psychics!" yelled Akiza as she activated her aura.
Pythor looked back at her. "And what possibly are you going to do little GIRL?" He asked, unaware of what was coming.
"I summon Evil Thorn! And I set 2 cards!" yelled Akiza.
Meanwhile, Yusei, Jack, and Crow rushed over to check on Kalin.
The Snake king raised a brow. "You seriously think YOUR little cards will harm me? Your more pathetic than any of that lot over there" he pointed to the guys.
"You don't want to mess with me, trust me," stated Akiza coldly. "Now, Evil Thorn! Attack him!"
Meanwhile, the Enforcers were watching her.
"Be careful, Akiza..." muttered Yusei.
"I'm sorry everyone, I let you all down..." sighed Kalin.
Phythor cockily smirked as he was suddenly thrust back. "AHh!" He fell against the wall and now growled.
"When Evil Thorn is tributed, I can special summon two more! Next, I summon the Tuner monster Twilight Rose Knight and activate her effect! This lets me special summon 1 level four or lower Plant-type monster from my hand! So come out, Dark Verger!"
"A tuner monster and 3 Special summoned monsters?" I think I know what's going to happen next..." said Jack.
Pythor got back up and looked back. "I'm really surprised you have time to fit this all in..." he commented as Azika readied her attack.
Akiza raised her arms and chanted "Chilling flames engulf the world. Pitch-dark flower, set into bloom! Synchro Summon! Come forth, Black Rose Dragon!"
Her ace monster appeared in a flurry of petals and thorns.
"Yeah! Now that's more like it!" cheered Crow.
"No really...I'm surprised you've got time to play your little 'games' with more PRESSING matters!" Afoot said Pythor as he weakly got up from the last attack.
"Akiza! He's weak! Now it's the time to attack!" called out Yusei.
"Right! Now, I flip over one of my Set cards! Thorn of Malice! And I equip it to Black Rose Dragon, which makes it stronger and your pain! Black Rose Dragon! Attack him with Rose Gale!"
Black Rose Dragon unleashed a tornado of black wind and rose petals at the snake.
In a blink Pythor was there and then gone, the petals striking against the nearby wall. He then came up behind Azika and choked her with his free hand. "As we speak, my kin travels this horrid world in search of the five tombs, once there we shall unleash OUR ARMIES!"
"Akiza!" yelled Yusei.
"That rotten, dirty, no good-snake! Is there really nothing we can do to stop him?!" shouted Crow.
"What army are you talking about?!" yelled Jack.
"The five...well now 4...armies of the Serpentine, sealed in four locations around this planet by Caesar!" Growled Pythor. "My generals are en-route to free them now...so times a ticking!" He said as he let her go and began to cackle as he began to fade away.
"Get back here, coward!" snapped Yusei, but it was too late. He went up to Akiza to check on her.
"I'm so sorry. I failed to stop him..."cried Akiza.
How are we supposed to defeat him, much less 4?" asked Jack.
It was clear they needed help.