Chapter 6
The Battle's End
Time resumed itself once more. Orochimaru continued his attack, until he saw the eyes. Elizabeth's eyes suddenly changed from a hazel color to pure white, light glowing from them. Before Orochimaru could react, pulsating energy from Elizabeth forced him to the ground. Manda, afraid, fled from the scene in a cloud of smoke.
The other three villains turned to look at Elizabeth for a moment, the friends also watching. Elizabeth's hair grew rapidly to her waist; her clothes melded into a floor-length, topaz dress. An equally topaz staff emerged from the ground, sunstones decorating it.
"Elizabeth," Takuya breathed. The friends stared in awe where Elizabeth was. Elizabeth stood up, staff in hand.
"Orochimaru, Kabuto, Marik, Bakura; you shall no longer harm the friends of Elizabeth," a new female voice spoke from Elizabeth. Orochimaru chuckled softly; Elizabeth turned to face him.
"So, you're the presence that I've sensed within the girl," Orochimaru hissed. Kabuto stiffened.
This girl, how many powers is she hiding? Kabuto thought to himself, shocked.
"She has only just begun to reveal her true powers," the voice continued after hearing Kabuto's thoughts.
Anna couldn't imagine her friend like this. What had triggered the transformation she had just witnessed?
"This ends now," the voice murmured wistfully. Elizabeth began to chant an Egyptian spell, her staff aglow. Elizabeth floated slowly off of the ground. The enemy tried to flee, only to discover that they were frozen on place.
The chanting grew louder and faster; new dialects were being chanted with the original incantation. Anna prayed that Elizabeth was alright. Takuya flinched then turned to face Yugi and Anna.
"We have to stop her," Takuya warned the others in a panicked voice.
"What's wrong?" Yugi and Anna asked in unison.
"That spell is powerful enough to defeat an army," Takuya began.
"So what's wrong with it?" Anna asked skeptically.
"That's what I'm getting to," Takuya spoke, annoyed. "That spell has a terrible price, though. It only happened once, but if anyone uses that spell, the body deteriorates at an incredible pace that, if left unchecked, it would disappear," Takuya explained while the other two looked horrified.
"How? We can barely get close to her," Yugi yelled over a wind that was forming. Anna pondered for a moment.
"That's the thing; the spell has gone too far. Even if we tried, we'd only make the body deteriorate even faster!" Takuya exclaimed.
"Well, now what do we do?" Yugi asked persistently, hoping that there was another way around this.
"As much as I hate it, we'll have to let it be for now, I guess," Anna timidly told the others. Yugi stared at her, but knew she was right.
"Elizabeth is strong. She'll make it out alive," Anna reassured the boys. They nodded in agreement and sent prayers for her.
Elizabeth unleashed the spell in a flurry of light. The four villains yelled as if in pain, while the friends shielded their eyes from the brilliant light. When it faded, the friends saw the field had changed.
Four cadavers lay on the ground, the eyes reflecting fear just before death(A/N: A cadaver is a dead body for those who don't know). The ground where the bodies lay went from plains to valleys with dead and upturned grass. Elizabeth hovered just over a hill created from the blast, her eyes still white.
"Elizabeth!" the friends called to Elizabeth as her feet touched the ground, her eyes back to normal. Elizabeth looked at her friends and smiled sheepishly at them.
(A/N: There will be a couple more chapters before this story is finished, so stay tuned!)
