Dark Magic Rising
A/N:Yu-Gi-Oh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi; this story is my own... / = communication with yami or through the Shadow Realm (like when Yami sent a message to Pegasus in "Give Up The Ghost.")
Dark Magic Rising
Evil Overlady
~ Epilogue ~
Seto Kaiba watched from the doorway of the hospital room as the doctors talked to Yugi. I'd underestimated her...
"...She's been through a lot..." he heard one of the doctors say. "Frankly, it's a miracle..."
Yes... It is... Kaiba thumbed the card in his hand.
"Don't stay long," the other doctor warned. "She needs her rest."
"Yes," Yugi said. "She's earned it."
She wasn't a very good duelist. A novist, to say the least, not even worth his time... and yet... She had improved her deck significantly... and won!
Yugi came up to him and Ryou. "Well, the doctors say she needs rest, but she'll be going home in a day or two..."
"That's a relief," the British student replied.
"Kaiba?" Yugi wondered.
Kaiba didn't hear him.
I can't explain these phenonomens that continue to crop up between me and Yugi... Pegasus's Millennium eye... How I feel so connected to my Blue-Eyes that they almost have a piece of my soul with them... Why that damned Rod glows and gives me glimpses into a past I almost remember...!
Seth?
Kaiba gasped and shook away the chill that had run down his spine, focusing on the way the morning sunlight playing through the leaves outside left strange flickering shadows through the curtains and onto Téa's bed covers. "Yes, that's good news," Kaiba acknowledged.
Yugi sighed as he oftentimes did when he had something on his mind other than the words coming out of his mouth. "Well, I guess I better go tell Mokuba and Grampa everything's all clear. Then, I guess we'll visit Téa later after we've all gotten some sleep."
"Good idea," Ryou added as they started to walk away. "That's still pretty incredible how I survived that Blue-Eyes. I thought I was going to be one crispy critter."
"Well, Bakura... Yamis can be pretty amazing..."
Kaiba lost the rest of the conversation as he stepped quietly into Téa's room, tucking his duffel bag behind him, he lay the card next to Téa's deck on the bed stand. "I can't explain what happened back there," he whispered. "But I have a feeling you're going to need this..."
He reached to touch her hand, but his fingers curled short. "Rest well, Téa..." Fellow priest... "And heal." He left.
On the bed-stand a shadow of leaf played over the picture of a pair of leaves with blue droplets coming off of them on the face-up card. The card glowed briefly.
Goblin's Secret Remedy: Increase a selected player's Life Points by 600 points.
As Kaiba disappeared around the corner, so too did the glow from within his bag.
The ghost of Tiye watched him sadly. "Set, poor soul... you scar as much in this life as the one before... May you heal as well, Priest of Set."
~ The End ~