Legendary Temple of Horus

Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.

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Kairi sighed as she idly spun around in a wheel-chair, somewhat bored out of her skull. At first, looking at the technology and VR game from the outside was fun, but now, she was rather bored about her non-gaming situation.

As the technician's went back and forth, gathering data on the game, Kairi thumbed through her Duel Monsters deck. She had bought some new cards, and was hoping to use them in the VR game, but it looked like she would have to wait for their debut.

While she thumbed through her cards, she heard the large doors to the computer lab open up and she turned to see Khamille's brother, Kristerr, walk briskly towards the main area.

"Alright, give me details, people, how are we doing here?" the male Tong asked, clapping his hands loudly, "How's my baby sister and her friends doing?"

"Well, they already won a duel against Harpie's Brother in the Harpie Forest, and they're on their way to the first Game Master, Mr Tong, sir," one of the female technician's reported, "Oh, and that pain in the ass Chazz kid got kicked in the groin,"

"Ah, so my sister's doing well," Kristerr nodded before taking notice of Kairi, "Hey...what happened with you, you lost already?"

Kairi shot a light glare at him. At least he seemed to remember her.

"For your information, pal, I didn't get a chance to play, there are no tubes left, so I'm out here waiting it out,"

"Ah, I see," Kristerr nodded, rubbing the back of his neck, "Sorry,"

"Don't worry about it," Kairi pulled her legs up on the chair and swayed from side to side, "God, I am SO bored!"

"Why don't you go and see if the tech people need any help with anything?"

"I said I was bored, not crazy," Kairi turned her chair around to look at the monitor behind her and donned the headset from before, "Might as well see what's going on,"

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The group of eight, with Evan in tow, left the slowly recovering village and began to walk down the dirt path on the other side of the village. Reluctantly, but eventually, Evan agreed to guide them through Dracon Forest and to Revastan Manor. Turned out, he had to go there anyway. He had been there once before, got his butt kicked by the Lord, and left something behind.

So now, they were walking down the dirt path, leading away from the village, their destination set in their minds. Needless to say, Chazz was excited about de-throning the Lord. As they walked, Chrissy and a few of the others learned some things about the VR world from Evan while Khamille leafed through the game booklet. When she glanced away from the book for a split second, she noticed something.

"Huh...this is interesting,"

"What now?"

Khamille grabbed hold of Chazz's arm and pulled it up, letting the others see his duel disk, "Check this out!"

"It's a duel disk, we all know what it is," Chazz snapped, pulling his arm back, "Why are you acting so surprised, you suddenly forget what it was?"

Khamille's eye twitched slightly, "No...I noticed that your Life Point counter was back to full points,"

Chazz looked down at his duel disk and sure enough, his disk was back to 4000 Life Points, "What's so weird about that?"

"Well, from what I've heard about the first VR game Kaiba made," Khamille thumbed through the booklet from before, "Life Points stayed the same...that must've just been the prototype of the game. We should consider ourselves lucky that our points go back to full capacity...otherwise, if we met up with a Game Master and our points were at full power, we would have a smaller chance of surviving the duel,"

"Then where's the challenge and fun in that?" Jaden asked, looking somewhat disappointed.

"I think it's just because we're test running it, trying to work out the kinks," Khamille reasoned, "After they measure how hard this can be, they'll probably alter the game's programming so that points won't restore themselves,"

Bastion nodded thoughtfully as they approached a fork in the road, a sign posted in the middle of it, "That makes sense...they don't want to make it too difficult, otherwise, where's the target audience for this game, if it's too hard?"

"Good point, Bastion," Jaden turned his attention to the sign at the middle of the road, "This must be what Evan told us about,"

"How do ya know?" Jordan asked.

Jaden pointed to the sign, "We go right if we want to go to Dracon Forest, and we go left if we want to...," he frowned, "...huh. Can't make that out,"

"Evan said one way went to the next region, and one way went to the Manor," Alexis shrugged, "Guess we know where the left path goes then,"

"Bingo!" Evan nodded and crossed his arms, "Glad to know you guys listened to me at least a little bit,"

"Enough yapping!" Chazz barked, heading down the right path, "Let's get this over with! The sooner we get there, the sooner I beat the pants of the old-timer!"

"ENOUGH ALREADY, CHAZZ!" more than half of the group shouted at the arrogant duelist as they followed him, "WE GET THE POINT!"

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"Well...I gotta say, I didn't see this coming,"

"Nope,"

"Think we should have bought a map at the village?"

The group of duelists sat around in a large circle, having lost themselves during their trek in the woods. Chazz was sitting on a large rock, arms folded and his foot tapping the virtual dirt anxiously.

"Nice place though," Christina looked up at the tall trees around them, "Reminds me of Harpie Forest, but hopefully, we don't run into those winged dorks this time...,"

"Why not?" Siho looked at his friend, "You scared of them?"

"Not scared, just really annoyed," the brunette rubbed her neck, "I don't get something though,"

"What's that?"

"If this place is supposed to be filled with Dragons...," she looked around, looking at the empty area all around them, "Where the hell are they?"

"They probably saw me coming and bolted,"

"Not you entirely, Chazz, just your face,"

"What did you just say to me, Rhodes?!"

"Bring it! Lexi and I can take you on!"

"Don't involve me in this!"

"See?! Lexi's on my side!"

"I didn't say that, and don't call me 'Lexi' !"

"Guys...,"

"C'mon Chrissy, there's plenty of Princeton for you to beat!"

"Guys...,"

"Seriously, join us!"

"GUYS!"

"WHAT?!" the three of them snapped their heads to Chrissy and Siho, who were staring something off to the side.

They followed their friends gazes and they were suprirsed to see a large, very old, stone building standing a short distance away, just a few yards from the clearing.

"Where the hell did that come from?" Chazz muttered, rising to his feet, "That wasn't there before,"

"Evan, what is that?" Jaden turned to their guide, "You got any idea?"

Evan stared at the building, "I...I don't believe it. It actually exists,"

"What actually exists?" Alexis asked, now turning to him too, "What's going on?"

Evan shook his head slowly, "There's a legend in this region. People say that a long time ago, there was a powerful Dragon with immense power...it was worshiped so much for it's strength and wisdom, they made a religious sect, made solely to worship and serve it,"

Jaden whistled, "Wow," he looked back at the building, "Doesn't seem like anyone's been around here for years though,"

"No, it doesn't, does it?" Evan removed his cap and ran a hand through his hair, "I wonder if the other stories about this thing is true,"

"What other stories? There isn't anything about a mystical triangle that holds the power to alter time?"

"Chrissy, I swear, you keep making movie references, I'll beat the crap outta ya,"

"Like you could, Lara Croft fanboy,"

Evan replaced his cap, "There are other stories...stories that say when the sect was worshiping the Dragon, they amassed a fortune of treasure inside the temple. For years, my village has looked for it, but we've never seen it!"

"Fortune? Alright, let's go check this out!"

Before anyone could stop them, both Siho and Christina took off like a shot and ran towards the temple, disappearing into the dark shadows of the doorway.

Alexis groaned, "What is it with Siho and treasure?"

"I dunno, but I can't be as bad as Kaiba's problem," Chazz muttered under his breath.

"What problem?"

"He's got a Dragon fetish," Chazz smiled smugly, "I know the symptoms, Lexi,"

Alexis facefaulted, "Seeing as you constantly use your Armed Dragons, I expect you would,"

Chazz remained silent, mostly in shock at what his "darling Lexi" had just said to him.

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"Holy...,"

"...crap!"

Siho and Christina stood in a huge, beautifully ornate stone room with carvings and paintings on the walls. At the end of the room, on a very long table. It sat in front of a massive gate and held a huge amount of food and littered along the floor at the walls was the beautiful sight of gold and jewels. Needless to say, Siho went for his treasure while Christina went for hers.

"This friggin' rocks!" Siho said excitedly as he began to stuff the gold into his pockets. He looked over his shoulder and paused in his looting, watching his best friend stuff her face with the food, "Chrissy, you do know that's not real right?"

"Tell that to my stomach,"

Siho rolled his eyes and went back to his thieving. He stuffed as much gold in his pockets as he could, and began to done the precious jewelry nearby, when he realized something.

This place is supposed to be empty, but the treasure is sparkling like it's been taken care of, and there's fresh-looking food on a large table in front of a very big gate...oh crap!

"Chrissy!" he spun around to yell at his friend to get away from the table, but when he turned around, he felt the cool metal tip of a sword against his throat.

Now, instead of it being the two of them in the room by themselves, there were many men in white tunics and dark capes, golden headdresses ontop of their heads. Christina had her arms held behind her back by a man who looked different than the rest, for he had a duel disk on his arm and a rather angry look on his face.

"Intruders, you have invaded the Temple of Horus," he barked, his voice echoing off the walls, "You have eaten our offering and have stolen from Horus' treasure horde. For these acts, only the most severe punishment is appropriate!"

He turned to a nearby man, who nodded and pulled hard on a large lever. A loud grinding noise filled the room while Siho and Christina watched as the huge gate at the end of the room began to rise off the ground, sending chunks of dirt and layers of dust falling to the ground. When it went as far as it could, the apparent leader handed Christina off to one of the other caped men and turned to the open gate.

He held up his arms, "ALMIGHTY HORUS! WE, YOUR HUMBLE SERVANTS, HAVE CAUGHT TRESPASSERS AND THIEVES IN YOUR HOLY DOMAIN! WE OFFER THEM TO YOU AS SACRIFICES FOR THEIR CRIMES!"

A few moments passed, and a loud growling sound emanated from the darkness of the gate as a pair of large glowing red eyes appeared in the blackness.

"Oh, crap!" both Siho and Christina shouted at the same time.

"GUYS!"

The two Slifers snapped their heads around to see Jaden and the others run into the huge room, skidding to a stop when they caught sight of what was going on and seeing the other inhabitants of the temple.

Jordan and Chazz stepped protectively in front of Alexis (who shoved Chazz away), while the others backed into each other, careful not to leave one another. Jaden looked carefully around the room, then let his eyes settle on the glowing eyes in the gate and his captive friends.

"Something tells me...this isn't a good thing,"

"NO DUH!"

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Kilnorc: Well, that chapter's taken care of, mwahahaha. Seems like our friends have gotten themselves into a mess, haven't they? Well, that should teach Chrissy and Siho not to act on basic instinct...

What will happen to them? Find out next chapter, folks!