MP: Last chapter, It's been a good run, stalled for a long time, but Now it ends, I'm almost sad to end my frist triology but the end of one thing is the begining of another.
Chapter 11: Destiny
Kenji POV
I nodded and run. Hikari's hunches had never been wrong before. I see Takeshi and Kai win with Haru barely defeating the monster.
"Guys, Sy lost, his battle!" I yelled.
" WE need to get to Hikari and Sakura before da monsters get them!" yelled Haru. We ran back to see Hikari still in the armor kicking the monsters butt and panting as the circle broke.
"We need to get to LA and fast." said Sakura as we regrouped around a panting Hikari.
Third POV
Hikari becomes normal after the battle and hears Sakura.
"Well that means we need a ride." said Hikari searching her deck. She pulled out a pink dragon. "Seiryu!" she yelled summoning the dragon, she not thinking much on why she was able to summon it. Sakura nodded and pulled a card out,
"Curse of Dragon!" yelled Sakura.
"Blue-eyes white Dragon!" yelled Kai.
"Two people per dragon!" Hikari yelled, tears in her eyes over Sy, but she would mark Dart's pay. She may not have been one of the three chosen to have the dragons but she would help in any way she could.
In LA Yugi and company have found Pegasus has had his soul stolen and now were on a run back to Domino to the HQ.
Most of the rest you know. Kaiba and has to fight on board a plane and escape via dragon ship. Yami Yugi loses to Gabriel and loses Yugi. Weevil the stupid jerk he is taunts Yami into a rage that has Yami defeat him. Joey loses to a rage possessed Mai. Mai then loses. Rebecca and Duke wind up in a duel together. More mass Chaos. Rebecca is ticked at Yami for losing Yugi, Anzu ticked hating Rebecca for liking Yugi. This going on until what's left of Yugi's group make it to Dart's real HQ, the ruins.
The only divergence from the show is the future group loses Haru, Takeshi, and Kenji. In short the two Motou women are POed majorly. Kai had never seen Kikari this mad, not even when she first dueled and kept losing, no, she was ticked. While Yugi and Kaiba engage Darts initially Sakura joined, "If you feel confident against these two then myself shouldn't be a threat." she hissed.
"Foolish girl, you wish to fall like these two?" he asked.
"If we're doing foolish things then count me in as well." she said. Yami looked to them and they smiled looking at him.
"No one and I mean absolutely no one, messes with the Mutous." said Sakura.
"Or their friends." said Hikari drawing cards.
"Fine if you foolish girls wish to go down in some attempt of glory, I will not stop you." he said drawing his cards.
Now, I don't remember how this duel goes so let's skip most of the parts where The four versus the one struggle to keep their souls in tack. Sakura falls first.
"May the gods be with you." she said as she collapsed. Hikari gained a more feral look in her eyes. 'So many gone no thanks to my cowardice!' she thought. Though it wasn't her fault she blamed herself.
She kept up surprisingly well, though duels for survival, whether it be food or life and death weren't foreign to her. She'd dueled five at once one time and she came out barely ahead. But this was a different level all together. Darts seemed to be avoiding her and concentrating on Yami and Kaiba, this she decided to use against him. Her attempts helped a little. That's when he gave them a history lesson. Hikari looked around and saw she was above ancient Egypt.
'Yami's home' she thought looking down upon it. She was too caught up in what was going on to hear what Darts or the others said.
"You, girl make no sense in this picture at all." Darts remarked.
"That's what I do best, freak, lets get back to dueling." she snapped.
"Temper, temper," he said as they went back to the world of the normal.
"Boo, hoo, you killed your wife thanks to that stupid rock so why don't you get rid of it?" asked Hikari. She managed to get a growl from him and Yami almost chuckled. Kaiba almost smiled.
A few more rounds and finally Kaiba fell.
"Ok, geeks, don't lose." he said. (A/N Changing his line) Hikari had lasted longer than she would have expected to last. She knew that had to win, other wise what was she doing there?
When she saw an attack coming for Yami she blocked it with her own monster sending her life points to zero.
"Win for me, Yami, you were always a good pal." she said as the seal claimed her soul too.
She found her self in a bubble near Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey.
"Hikari?" asked Yugi.
"I just lost to that freak." she said sadly. "Yami will win, he has to."
"We all believe in him." said Yugi.
"Well if he doesn't then how do we exist?" asked Sakura. Yugi nodded.
"Where's Sy?" asked Hikari.
"Below you." came Sy's voice. She looked down and saw Kenji was farther away from where the souls were devoured than she was, he and Takeshi.
In the world of the living Yami dealt a blow against Darts destroying the seal and letting him summon all three dragons. Then unleash their knightly forms on Darts. Then the duel is over, Yami won and those in the room had their souls restored. That's when they felt a rumbling and the leviathan appeared with Darts as it's head.
"Time for a final battle." said Sakura arming herself. Hikari noticed Sakura glowing.
"You're glowing." said Hikari.
"That means my other half wants to play." said Sakura drawing the dark magician girl and there was a flash of light and in her stead was a dark magician girl with tri- colored hair and violet eyes. This made Yami Yugi blink in confusion.
"Long story." said Sakura holding her staff at the ready.
"I've got an idea" said Hikari and draw the sword of dark destruction.
"SWOD OF DARK DESTRUCTION!" she yelled and it glowed summoning the sword in front of Sakura who grabbed it out of the air.
"I'm not enough magician to make it matter in the actual battle but I can help." said Hikari.
"A useless gesture!" yelled Darts. Joey, who was now revived sent Hermos at him and fell, Kaiba fell next and it left the Mutous alone again.
"How will you restore us to our proper times?" asked Sakura as Hikari summoned monsters to help fight. Each new monster drew off her strength to stay in the world of humans.
"I don't know, there's something that's not supposed to happen other wise the future wouldn't be so messed up- wait, you die young! In a car accident, it was on your kid's fourth when a drunk driver hit you. Experts say he'd have just hit a tree if you hadn't been there." she said. Not knowing doing that was what she needed to do. Just then both fell but instead of being absorbed by the beast they began to vanish in pigments of light.
"What's happening?" asked Hikari.
They faded but slowly enough to see Yami fall too, and then they were in the in between place with a beautiful women looking at them., Takeshi, Kai, Haru, Kenji and Sy were there too.
"You have found a blooper even we couldn't find." said the women.
"Who are you?" asked Haru rudely.
"I guard time. Most of what happened with Yugi and Yami was supposed to happen but Sakura was never supposed to die young. So we set in place events for your birth Hikari. So that you could be in a position to prevent her death. You will cease to exist as you are after this moment, or you could go to a future that will only get worse." she said.
Hikari POV
(Cue music from KH called Another Side-don't own that)
My life or several. Yami would be a big help right now, but I survived with out him before. What difference would I make in a failing world any way. Is this the coward's way out?
'No little one.' said Yami's voice. I look to see him next to me in his Pharaoh's attire, solid, looking regal. 'I was faced with the same choice and made it gladly, you are not a coward.' he said hugging me. I turn to the woman tears streaming down my face as I look over at the others.
"What about them?" I asked.
"They too will cease to exist." she said.
"Guys?" I asked.
"Well if it's for the better I supposed it isn't that bad." said Kai. Kenji shrugged confused. Sy was almost passed out.
"I'm not ok wit it. You expect us to basically die?" asked Takeshi.
"You were only meant to exist for this purpose." said Fate.
"That's a rip! We never to get to live? Have kids? Then why give us feelings at all!" yelled Takeshi. I nodded.
"You will all receive second chances but you might not wind up the same. Some of you might wind up snobbish, others more cowardly than this version of this life." she said.
I walked to her and saw a nod from the others.
"Send Sy back with all knowledge of my presence there erased save for Sy's memories of me." I said and I walked over to Sy and gave him a hug, he was fighting back tears.
"Look, Sy, You'll never see me again like this, but I need you to toughen up and fight more of your own battles. Jaden won't be around forever. No one is. Promise me you'll try for me." I said letting the tears I'd denied myself most of my life flow freely. He nodded.
After one last hug from the others and Yami I walk to Fate. I dry my tears and say to Fate,
"Fix time."
3rd POV
Sy woke up with a worried Jaden over him.
"Dude you collapsed in front of Seto Kaiba!" he said.
"Where's Hikari?" he asked.
"Hikwho?" he aked.
'It was a dream, but it felt so real.' he thought and then reached into his pocket to find a card with a note attached to it.
'Sy, use this and think of me; become stronger for me.
H.M' It was called Judgment of Anubis. Hikari had used it once. She had been real.
'Ok Hikari, I'll become stronger for you.' he said.
Sakura did not die in a car accident, she, unlike everyone else, remembered Hikari's outburst and stayed off the road that day and had two children. Her second child was a boy(Samuel). Both grew up and live long and her son had a granddaughter. This granddaughter had the trade mark hair.
"Her name's Hikari." he told her. She smiled as she looked at the small girl.
'Hopefully, this time is better for you.' she thought as she held her.
After Hikari turned 14 the puzzle chose her and the others also received their items everyone being the same age this time around. and the Millennium Age continued in peace and prosperity. Hikari never had to face the hardships she had previously. Sakura watched her wondering if the girl remembered anything. When she looked at the more innocent version there was always a flicker of the old Hikari in her eyes.
THE END