Dislcalimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh
On top of a mountain, where a huge castle lay, Aron leaned against a wall; looking outside a window.
"Yes my lord." A servant in front of him bowed; his face facing the floor. "Your army is ready to go and attack at your word."
"Good." Aron smiled evilly. "Tell them to prepare themselves."
"Of course." The servant got up and turned to leave. "My lord? If I have your permission to ask."
"What?" Aron said bluntly.
"What about Ausar and his son my lord?"
Aron smirked. "Ausar and his son? Don't worry your traitorous head." The servants' eyes grew with surprise. Aron looked at the trembling servant. "Everything is going according to plan." Arons' green eyes flashed and in an instant, he grabbed a dagger hidden under his wrist and stabbed the servant above the heart.
Aron showed no emotion as his servant, or the traitor, gasp with pain and choked up blood. Aron pulled out the dagger and let the corpse fall to the ground; the servants' eyes were still wide with shock.
"Guards!" The door flew open and two people with armor came in. "Take this…thing out. Burn it outside."
"Yes my lord!" The two guards hastily picked up the dead body and left the room.
"Farid!" Aron yelled out. He waited patiently as a shadow on the floor entered the room. He showed no surprise as the shadow rose from the ground, materializing into the impassive soldier Farid.
"Yes my lord?"
"Go and tell my army to get ready. They will attack in midnight." Farid said nothing. He just bowed his head and materialized into a shadow again, slithering out of the room. Aron looked outside and was satisfied at what he saw. Soldiers ran out to the giant field, lining into their positions and faced towards him. Any enemy of Aron would've trembled at the sight of the size of the army.
There were tens of hundreds, hundreds of thousands! They all looked like ants, swarming into their positions. In a few seconds what was once an empty field was now a field filled with thousands and thousands of soldiers.
Aron quickly took part of his energy and formed it into a wind that could be blown around the soldiers, channeling his voice for everyone to hear.
"Tonight my servants, we shall march out of our lands and go and conquer our enemies!" The soldiers shouted their excitement; the air vibrated with their yells. "We will go like night creeping into the nightmares of men, women and children! We will go and slay every opposing force we find and pillage their villages and take the women and children prisoners! We will attack the kingdoms that stole our lands, our rights, our heritage! We will go and get what was once ours and more! Tonight my allies, we will fight and destroy every force in the land and make everything ours!" The soldiers yelled out, all convinced by Arons' speech that they will go and fight for themselves.
Aron smirked and left the view of the excited army. Those fools. He thought as he went back inside to the shelter of his castle. Those poor pathetic souls. Once we go and conquer everything, everyone will bow down to king Aron! Aron walked towards a room and opened it, revealing a room filled with armory. He took out a sword and flicked it, testing its' speed. He took a belt and put it around his waste; placing the sword on the scabbard. He took out daggers as well and hid them inside his black cloak.
And don't think I forgot you or your son Ausar. Aron left the room and closed it. He slowly made his way downstairs. He made his way through many hallway, made to fool anyone who didn't know their way around the castle. Neither you or your son are safe. I have already found you and it's time to make my move. He finally made it outside.
A horse was waiting for him and he climbed it gracefully. I hope you enjoy the few moments with your son because it'll be certainly going to be your sons' last! Aron looked at Farid and nodded. Farid lowered his head in understandment.
"Forward!" Farid yelled. A horn blasted and the army began to move slowly at first, but then began to speed up.
Ausar. Aron gripped his sword tightly. Your son is as good as dead!
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Enki whimpered as he lay his head on Jolinars' bed.
"He still hasn't woken up yet." Ausar looked at Jolinar worryingly. It's already been a day and a half and Jolinar has still not have waken.
How can this happen? Ausar thought worryingly. Why did this happen? Jolianr just touched the photo and blanked out. And Mokuba's brother, he looks exactly like Jolinar! But how can that be? Mokuba said that his brother disappeared seven months ago, and Lokik found Jolinar seven months ago. Is this a coincidence? Ausar eyes softened as a thought occurred to him. Or is Jolianr truly Mokuba's brother?
"It makes sense." Ausar said out loud. Enki looked at him very quizzing as Ausar left the room. Enki followed him a he went downstairs and barked when Ausar grabbed the door handle to outside. "I'll be gone for a while Ok? Go and take care of Jolinar."
Enki barked and ran back upstairs. He sat besides the sleeping Jolinar and stood there like a bodyguard. Jolinar muttered something and Enki whimpered worryingly again. He nearly jumped when he heard the phone ring and went downstairs to hear the message that the person will leave.
"…Please leave a message after the tone." Enki heard the tone and heard Mokuba.
"Hello? Is anybody there?" Enki barked his acknowledgement. If he only knew that he had to pick up the phone to be heard.
"Hey Ausar. It's me Mokuba. I'm just calling to see if Jolinar is ok and everything ya know? Me and the rest of the gang are worried." There was a moment of silent. "I guess that's all I wanted to say. Can you call when Jolinar is ok? Bye!" Enki heard a click as Mokuba hanged up.
Enki made a sound like a sigh and he went back upstairs to Jolinar. Before he reached Jolinar's room, he heard a groan. Enki barked happily as he identified it as Jolinar and ran into the room. He barked again as he saw Jolinar sitting up sleepy.
"Enki?" Jolinar said grudgingly. Enki barked again and ran over to Jolinar, his tail wagging. Enki licked Jolinar's face which seriously woke Jolinar up. "Ew! Enki! Hey! Knock-Knock it off will you! Down boy!" Enki happily obeyed and sat down, but not before licking Jolianr one more time, just for the annoyance.
"No t.v for you." Jolinar tried to wipe the saliva off his face unsuccessfully. "This is disgusting." He got up and quickly went to the bathroom to wash his face. He muttered curses as he dried his face and looked at the mirror. He was himself. Thank goodness. He wondered what happened until he remembered. He sighed and sat against the wall, his knees up and his head between them.
He remembered bits and pieces of the flashes; none of them were complete. They didn't seem to be in order and when he thought he was finally going to get an answer from them, the visions jumped to somewhere else. He noticed that most of them involved that kid, Mokuba.
"Why is he so important to me?" Jolinar said exhaustedly. He tugged his hair frustratingly. "And why were the other there as well?" The others, meaning Yugi and the gang, were driving him nuts. A hopeful thought occurred to him. Maybe those visions were part of my past. But the thought vanished as he thought something else. But this is the first time I've been here. I was found in another realm, not here. Maybe those visions were hopeful hallucinations.
Enki waited outside the bathroom. Whining worryingly, he sat there patiently for Jolinar to come out.
Jolinar heard Enki whine, but he ignored it.
"I'm so confused." Jolinar whispered helplessly.
He clutched his head as he recalled the dream from the other day. Mokuba's anger sadden him and the ghost of his own self terrified him. A part of him desperately clutched to that dream: salvation. While the other part of him wanted to reject the dream, that hope. The hope of actually being closer to his past.
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Ausar looked up at the building up ahead. It was the local library. Ausar slowly went up the steps and entered the library as if he were entering a trap. He was met with silence as he entered the building. Books surrounded him and the place smelled of coffee.
Ausar went to the help desk and looked at the old lady. "You wouldn't happen to have old newspapers now would you?" The lady looked at him with a blank look and pointed towards the back of the library.
"Knock yourself out."
"Eh…thanks."
"Whatever."
Ausar walked towards the back where newspapers were rolled into scrolls. In no time, he was able to find newspapers dated back seven months back. Ausar grabbed them and went to a table where no one would bother him. He opened the first newspaper and was hit by surprise.
At the cover in big words was: FAMOUS CEO MISSING!
What surprised Ausar most was the picture of the missing CEO. The CEO was hanging on a helicopter looking down. What shocked Ausar wasn't the fact that it was Seto Kaiba, but of the clothes that he was wearing. It was exactly the same outfit as the one that he saw Jolinar wear in his vision of the dream when they switched places.
Ausar rubbed his eyes tiredly. What is going on here? he thought as he took out another newspaper with the missing CEO on the headlines.
On the morning of yesterday at eight of the night, the president of the Kaiba corporation was announced missing. The little brother of Seto Kaiba, Mokuba, has called for a search party for Seto Kaiba. No breakthroughs have been made and the police are stumped on how to find the missing CEO. The desperate brother has made a ten thousand reward for any clue on the missing CEO even though it has been one day. In the middle of the page was a picture of policemen with their dogs around Domino City.
Ausar ignored the rest of the paragraph and went to another newspaper; two weeks later. The news of the missing Kaiba was still headline news.
No new clues have been found. Even with the ten thousand dollars reward for any leads to the missing Kaiba. Despite this, the policemen dogs were able to sniff out Kaiba's scent going towards the forest inside Domino city. The dogs were able to find just a piece of the trench coat that Seto Kaiba wears and , more disturbingly, blood. The blood has been identified as that belonging to Kaiba and investigators have identified blood belonging to an unidentified person. Just when investigators believed that they were close to finding Kaiba, the dogs began to whimper and refused to go deep inside the forest. Policemen were stumped at the dogs behavior and tried to go inside the forest themselves. They found no more clues. Not even more blood. But investigators were shocked to see what was the remains of a short forest fire that just burned just a little part of the forest. "Why no one have noticed the fire and reported it, we don't know." an investigator was interviewed and said, "We believe that Kaiba may have been in this forest fire and may have been killed." Other investigators shake their heads in disagreement. "There was no body to be found." Another investigator said. "There is no proof that Kaiba was burned here in this forest." No more information is available at this moment.
Ausar skipped more newspaper and took out the last one about Seto Kaiba. Even though this one was the last one about the boy, it was still headline news.
Today, after two months of the disappearance of Seto Kaiba, search parties have been canceled and investigators have gone home. Mokuba Kaiba, who began the search parties said that he has lost all hope and wishes to end the search parties.People were shocked at this and many thought of a conspiracy, but in the end their sympathy won their hearts and made no accusations. A memorial was set up in memory of Seto Kaiba. Friends and rivals came to participate in the memorials. Even though Mokuba is now the president of Kaiba Corp. Roland, an employer is substituting as president from now on.
All that they found of this Seto Kaiba was a piece of the trench coat that he always wore. Ausar pondered at this bit of information. In that vision that I got when I was Jolinar, Jolinar pulled that coat of his and it ripped, leaving a piece of it behind. And in that vision, Jolinar was in a forest. He also managed to get some blood out of the stalker. The people here found a piece of Kaiba's trench coat, the same that Jolinar wore in that vision, and found his blood and another who they can not identify. Hmm…
"So, you're searching for information on Seto Kaiba eh?" The librarian stood over Ausar, looking over the newspapers he chose.
"Yes."
"I knew him quite personal really." The librarian sat down next to Ausar. "He used to come here all the time looking for books to read. He was quite…unemotional when I first met him. Quite funny really. But over time he began to trust me and started to treat me like almost a friend." The librarian sighed. "It was quite a shame that he disappeared really. Now I'm lonely again in this old library. All I've got are my inky friends who won't talk to me. I'm sorry." The librarian stood up and looked at Ausar apologetically. "I'm probably boring you. Go back to your business. Truly sorry."
"N-No. It's quite alright. Don't know many people here anyway. Say," Ausar took out a chair and the librarian sat on it. "Can you tell me more about this Seto Kaiba? I'm quite curious."
The librarian laughed. "Oh sure. Like I told you, he was quite unemotional. When he was a kid, he used to come here all the time. His mother would read him books and he would laugh with her. His father was the nicest person I knew. But" The librarian looked at Asuar straight in the eye. "I must tell you, Seto didn't look like his parents at all. No, not at all. They entrusted with me a secret and I never told this to anyone, no, no one at all. Not even Seto knows this secret. Can you keep a secret?"
Ausar thought for a moment. A secret? Oh sure, he can keep secrets. "Until I die."
The librarian nodded her approval. "Good. Now, I never saw Seto's mother pregnant with him. No, not at all. Oh, she came here everyday, rain or shine. Anyway, one day she just came in here with a child in her hands. I, and Seto's mother of course, suspected that the child was about three, maybe four months old. Oh, she showed him around as if the baby was hers. She always wanted a kid of her own let me tell you, and I never saw her so happy before. Anyway, I asked her-You're not a reporter are you?" The librarian looked at Ausar suspiciously. "Be honest with me boy."
Ausar pretended to look shock. "Me? Of course not! The very last thing that you will pay me to do is to be a reporter. I'm just a curious person looking around this neighborhood."
The librarian laughed. Other visitors turned to look at them. The librarian just waved them off. "I like your style. Anyway, I asked her who the kid belonged to, and believe me, I was shocked when she told me that she found the boy in the middle of the forest. As if to leave him off to die or something! What kind of parent is that?"
"Who indeed." Ausar muttered.
"Anywho, I helped her make posters of the boy. Put them everywhere I tell you! We waited for days and nobody came to claim the boy. Days turned to weeks, weeks to months." The librarian sighed. "In time nobody, absolutely nobody came to claim the boy. It was then that the girl and her husband had the choice to take him to the orphanage or adopt the boy. Why, she decided to adopt the boy! Now guess who the boy was?"
A thought came to Ausar. "Kaiba?"
"Exactly! It was Seto that they found in the forest and the one that they adopted." The librarian cackled madly. "Reporters and journalists will kill for that juicy info! But anyway, Seto's mother began to bring Seto so I can baby-sit him. Baby-sit! Here! In a library! Can you imagine that? Anywho, she bought Seto here and I took care of him while his mother and father worked. If anything, this was his second home: a house filled with books and silence. Let me tell you, later on, Seto was later on called a genius. A prodigy." The librarian waved her hand as if dismissing something. "Bah! Seto had all these books with him! What do you think will happen when you put a boy in a library to take care of? Anyway, there was a park out there, so Seto wouldn't have always been reading books in here all day. No, not at all. I was there to watch Seto grow all those ten years."
The librarian sighed sadly. "But give me a song to accompany this day when his mother was finally pregnant with Seto's little brother. Let me tell you, Seto was excited! Oh he was excited that he was going to be a big brother. Nothing would break his happiness. And then the day came, July seven, when Mokuba was born. Seto was so excited. His father was sort of nervous and his mother was happy…and in pain."
Ausar laughed. "She must've been."
"Anyway, I don't know what happened, but that day was the first most terrible day in Seto's life."
"First?"
"I'll tell you the others later. Seto's mom died giving birth to Seto's brother: Mokuba. Seto was devastated at that time. He wasn't the same for a while. He just sat there, staring into space. We all mourned for a while, but the pain passed. When it did, I saw Seto grow angry at Mokuba. I remember seeing Seto look at Mokuba with hate for a while, but it subsided. He then took on the role of an older brother. He took care of Mokuba. Still came here, his second home. It wasn't as the same as before though. Few years later, their father was killed in a car accident. And that…that was the last that I've seen of them for a while." The librarian sighed. "Their relatives took them in. And what did they do? They wasted their inheritance! They gambled all their money and then what do they do? They take the two to an orphanage!"
"Ssh!" some one whispered harshly.
The librarian humped. "I don't know what happened while they were in orphanage. I was tempted to go and adopt them as my own, I certainly felt those two as my own children you know, but I had no money. A job as a librarian can barely feed an old woman let alone two children." The librarian shook her head. "No, not at all. I was hoping that a good family would go and adopt Seto and Mokuba. Many wanted to adopt Seto 'cause of his genius. But they didn't want Mokuba was what I heard. The people of the orphanage said that Seto refused the adoptions when they didn't include Mokuba. I was so proud of him. I'm sure his parents, let them rest in peace, were proud of him too."
"I'm sure they are." Ausar said.
The librarian nodded. "But it was bad luck when Seto got adopted by that bastard Gozaboro." She said the name with disgust. "The people said that Seto challenged him to a game of chess. Seto won the game and Gozaboro had to keep his end of the promise and adopted them." The librarian shook her head. "If you ask me, that was the most terrible that Seto had done."
"Why?" Ausar asked. "Why is that the most terrible."
The librarian sighed. "I'll tell you. I don't know what Gozaboro done to the poor boys but the next time I saw Seto, he was completely different." The librarian spoke sadly. "Seto came here one day. I didn't expect him to recognize me. I grew old and wrinkly, but that's life eh? Anywho, Seto's child face was gone. He matured. Grew a lot taller let me tell you! But he seemed distant. So…"
"Cold?"
"Cold is such a harsh word Mr…?"
"Marduk." Ausar answered her.
"Ah. Mr. Marduk. Cold is such a harsh word. I'd say misunderstood. He changed. He disregarded everyone and seemed to reject everyone. He even rejected me! Well, not like that, but he ignored me. As if I was a stranger! He seemed to have forgotten me as well. Oh but he had everything anyone would dream of! He had money, power, the smarts, everything. If you ask me, he didn't seem too happy. He still had Mokuba. I remember there were times when Mokuba came in here, got a few books, but he forgot me as well. Of course, he was young so young so I don't blame him." The librarian paused, her eyes glazed as if she were seeing a distant memory.
"This Gozaboro…how did he treat them?"
The librarian scoffed angrily. "Like I told you, I don't know how. I don't know a thing about my poor boys' lives with that bastard. But I say the happiest day of their lives was when Gozaboro disappeared. I consider that a wonderful and holy day. Gozaboro used Kaiba Corp. to build weapons that bought destruction to countries. Thank goodness that Seto changed that! He changed the corporation from a military corporation to a gaming corporation. Did you know that he build those duel disks? And that he made a tournament? Two actually." The librarian said this proudly as if the boy was her own son.
"You seem proud." Ausar replied.
"But of course! I raised the boy you know! I think of him as my own!"
"Did…" Ausar hesitated. "Did you ever found out who were his true parents?"
The librarian shook her head. "No I never did. But let me tell you something." She came closer to Ausar and whispered. "That forest that investigators believe Seto went…is the exact forest where Seto was found as a baby. Now tell that that's not a big coincidence!"
"That is a big coincidence. Does Mokuba know about this?"
"Oh dear no! The boy would be devastated I think. No, I think I should, and you, keep this secret."
"Surely Seto would've noticed the adoption papers."
"Ha! Let me tell you, Seto's parents were smart. They made the adoption papers look as if they aren't adoption papers. Only the trained eye can see what they truly are."
"What do you think?"
"Think about what?"
"Seto's disappearance. Do you think he's alive?"
"Of course I think he's alive! Call it instincts, but I believe that Seto is somewhere out there. Why he hasn't come out of the open I don't know. But I believe that he is alive and well."
"You truly believe that?"
The librarian nodded. She began to get up. "It was good talking with you Mr. Marduk. Perhaps I'll see you around the neighborhood here and then."
"Wait!" Ausar stopped the librarian. "Why do you trust me enough to tell me this? You said that you kept this secret all this time. Why do you trust me?"
The librarian seem to think. "I feel as if I can that's all. Truth be told, you really remind me a lot of Seto, just a bit older." The librarian chuckled. "Perhaps you may be related." She turned and left.
"Perhaps indeed."
Ausar left the quiet library into the darkening city.
He looked around the buildings, trying to find something to distract him from his thoughts. He was now half certain that Seto Kaiba's disappearance had to with something Jolinar.
Need a drink? There was a sign ahead with a big sign: Need a drink? There was an arrow pointing at a door.
"Sure, why not." Ausar entered the door to be met with a semi lit bar. He went up front where the bartender was giving bottles to two costumers.
"Hey! A newbie! What can I get for you?" Te bartender asked as Ausar sat down.
"What do you got?" The bartender pointed up his head where there was a big menu of drinks.
Corona? Budweiser? A bloody Mary? What is this stuff? Ausar looked over everything they got and he was stumped at what he was going to get.
The bartender noticed Ausar's puzzled look. "Why don't I pick for you? How much do you got?" Ausar pulled out money from his pocket and gave it to the bartender. "Ok." The bartender took out a Corona.
"Thanks." Ausar looked at the cold drink in his hands Why is it yellow? He thought as he opened it. He took an uncertain sip and winced. It was sour! But at least it momentarily distracted him from his thoughts. He took another sip and another. Soon he finished the drink and noticed that he was starting to like it. He ordered another one.
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"Hello? Is anybody there?…Hey Ausar. It's me Mokuba. I'm just calling to see if Jolinar is ok and everything ya know? Me and the rest of the gang are worried…I guess that's all I wanted to say. Can you call when Jolinar is ok? Bye!"
Jolinar smiled at the concern of Mokuba. He picked up the phone and marked Mokuba's number and waited patiently as the phone rang. Instead of Mokuba or anybody picking the up the phone, the machine spoke up. Jolinar heard the tone and began to talk as the machine recorded his message.
"Hey Mokuba. It's me Jolinar. I'm just calling to tell you that I'm all right and that I'm feeling better. Any way, thanks for worrying. Not that I'm happy that you were worrying! I'm just glad that you were concerned. Bye." Jolinar hanged up the phone and jumped when Enki barked.
"What is it Enki? Is something wrong?" Enki barked again and grabbed the door handle to the outside with his two paws and turned them to open the door. Enki ran outside barking as he did. "Enki? Enki come back here! Enki! Why I outta-" Jolinar grabbed a black trench coat that he bought earlier and ran outside to Enki, who just kept on running to what seemed to be a purpose. Jolinar ran up and down different streets. He followed as Enki took right and left turns, went over bridges and through many alleyways.
Any other person would've lost their breaths in following Enki. Jolianr followed Enki to what seemed to be a forest. "Enki." Jolinar said menacingly. Enki just barked and ran into the forest. "When I get my hands on you…huff…you're going to regret this Enki." Jolinar came to a stop to take a breath. He placed his hands on his knees and gasped as he tried to catch his breath. He groaned as he stood up, his back ached so much!
He took a moment to look around the place. This seems familiar. He looked at the trees, trying to find anything that was unique that seemed familiar to him.
He walked slowly, looking up and around the trees. "What's this?" Jolinar walked up to a tree, which seemed to have burn marks all over it. He turned and that's when he noticed that every tree surrounding him was previously burned. His foot caught a branch on the floor and he went painfully down on the ground.
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"Brisnigr!" Jolianr looked back and he saw a stranger point at him and saw the effects of the Brisnigr effect. The stranger threw back his hand that held the fire.
"Damn it!" Jolinar felt himself said. Jolinar turned to flee and fell painfully to the ground. He wanted to gasp but couldn't as he felt his side burn with pain and stars over clouded his vision. He felt the fire that the stranger threw miss him and landed somewhere up ahead of him.
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"Aah!" Jolinar got up quickly; putting a hand over his left ribs where he felt the pain in that vision. It felt so real! Jolinar thought as Enki came running towards him, whimpering worryingly. "Don't worry Enki." Jolianr swallowed. "I'm ok." I think. He thought as he tried to catch his breath. He felt as if he just ran a mile. His heart thumped at the terror of the dream. He got up shaking, and pulled up his shirt. He looked down on his left, where there was a stab wound on his left and two stab wounds on his right. He still felt the puzzlement on how he got those wounds on him. The pain that he felt in the dream was in the same location as that wound he had.
Enki barked and pointed at a direction up ahead; indicating that he wanted Jolinar to follow him. Jolinar felt as if he had no choice and followed Enki was what he did. "Where are we going?" Enki didn't respond. With every step that Jolinar took, he recalled the feeling of terror, helplessness and anger that he felt in his dream grow.
Enki finally stopped walking and barked. Jolinar stopped and saw Enki go between two thick bushes and came out with something big and dirty in his teeth. He went to Jolinar and placed the item in front of him. Enki barked and sat down, waiting patiently for Jolinar to pick up the item.
Jolinar bent down slowly and grabbed the object. He tried to wipe out some dirt from the object. Obviously, it was found in the ground and it's been there for a long time. He beat the object, trying to smooth it out so he can see what it was clearly. Jolinar nearly dropped the item as he recognized it.
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Jolinar felt himself run away from the stranger. He didn't dare to look back. He heard the wind break as he heard the stranger throw the dagger that he had with force. Jolinar quickly swerved left, dodging the deadly knife coming his way. He resisted the urge to yelp as his trench coat was caught by the dagger and was embedded in a tree.
He felt himself being picked up by the stranger. Jolinar thought quickly and grabbed the dagger that the stalker had in his hands and brutally placed it in the strangers thigh. Jolinar grinned with satisfaction as he heard the stranger yell and pushed him. He pulled the trench coat and didn't give much thought as the coat ripped.
He ran again. He tried to go between two bushes up ahead. He nearly cursed out loud as his coat got tangled with the branches of the bushes. "Oh for the love of-" Jolinar just took of the coat and ran off.
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The trench coat was the same as before.
It was white, albeit a bit dirty, and it still and it still had the buttons. Jolinar noticed the rip on the button of the coat. Just like in my dream.
He was tempted to put it on, as if it were the most natural thing to do. He looked down at Enki. "Where did you find this?" Enki barked and pointed at two bushes. Two bushes that were identical to the one's that Jolinar's dream.
Is it possible- Jolinar got up and patted Enki's head. Is it possible that I may have come from this place?
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"Uhh." Ausar put his throbbing head down.
I think the corona was actually a strong mead. Wish I knew that before I drank it. Asusar slowly got up and began to walk away dizzyingly.
"Hey buddy! Are you ok?" The bartender yelled.
Ausar just waved weakly, never looking back at the bartender.
"Do you want to get a ride home buddy? You'll be an easy target for some robber you know."
"I-hic- got someone to pick me up-hic-." Ausar said confidently. Well, as confidently as he could. Hell, he was drunk!
"Are you sure?" Ausar just waved off again. The bartender just shrugged. "Just don't blame it on me when you get in a accident."
Ausar walked slowly away from the bar, his head was swarming with little lights. The sun made it worse as well. Ausar walked towards and alley way, where there was lots of shade. There was a crate on the floor and he sat on it. It creaked as he did. Ausar put his hand in front of his face. He groaned painfully at the throbbing headache.
"Hey, you look lost buddy." At the back end of the alley was a gang grinning evilly. One of them, the leader, cracked his knuckles. "If you don't give us your money, you'll be even more lost." They all came towards him, predator crawling to prey.
"If -hic- you know what's good for you -hic-, it suggest you leave me alone." Ausar groaned.
"He's drunk boss!" One of the lackeys said. "He'll be easy."
"Get lost kids." Ausar hiccupped. "Aren't your -hic- parents worried?"
"Who, they?" The leader laughed. "They could care less!"
Ausar got up slowly, he nearly fell on his face as a new wave of dizziness hit him. The gang laughed.
"He can't even stand up!"
"What are you kids doing?" Ausar groaned. "Why are you taking this type of life for granted?"
The leader of the gang stopped.
Ausar leaned against the wall. "Your country, your family, your friends, they aren't in danger. They don't have to fight to survive their life. You all can be in school, taking advantage of an education. What are you all doing here? You are all making your lives miserable." Ausar sighed. "Do you know how to kill boy?"
"What are you going on gramps?" The leader said angrily.
"You probably don't. Consider -hic- yourselves lucky. Where I come from, I had to learn how -hic- to kill when I was ten. My village was -hic- attacked by a rival nation, I saw many die." He looked at the leader. "You take this life -hic- of yours for granted boy. You don't need to -hic- wake up everyday in the morning wondering if your friends will -hic- able to survive that day. You don't have to wake up -hic- wondering if you will survive that day. You don't have to wonder if you'll have no -hic- food, no water, you don't have to wonder if you'll have to kill."
"The drink has gone to his head." The leader laughed. He took out a gun and pointed it at Ausar.
"You don't -hic- want to do that kid." Ausar said.
"Watch me." The leader pulled the trigger and a shot was heard.
Ausar quickly took a piece of his power and turned it into a dark shield around him. The bullet incinerated when it touched the dark shield. The gang looked at Ausar at shock. Unfortunately, Ausar was too drunk to control his power limit. He felt his power slip and the shield grew and expanded towards the gang.
"Run!" The leader yelled. As the shield grew near, everything incinerated in contact. The gang, seeing this, ran even faster. "He's a demon!" One of them shouted and they ran like the wind.
"Oops." Ausar quickly retrieved his power back into his source and the shield disappeared before it can do any more damage. As soon as he was in his normal limit control, another wave of dizziness and nausea hit him. He turned towards the wall and began to throw up.
I can't go back home like this! He sat down and took deep breaths. He took just a tiny bit of his power and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the imaginary string that guided him to Jolinar became visible. His magic hand tugged the string and he called Jolinar.
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Jolinar and Enki went home after they found their discovery.
"Sometimes I wish you could talk to tell me how you found this." Jolinar said to Enki. Enki walked proudly and looked at Jolinar in a smugly way. Jolianr sighed and took out his card like pendent. He started to play with it, trying to open it.
Jolinar stopped when he felt something tug in his mind.
Jolinar?
Jolinar recognized Ausar's voice.
Dad?
Oh good. Jolianr could feel Ausar's relief through their connection. I need help.
Ok, what is- whoa! Jolinar gasped as he suddenly felt dizzy and nauseas. His head pounded and he felt a little high.
Sorry. Jolinar felt the sickness go away and felt relief.
That's ok. Jolinar looked at Enki. "I'm ok. It's just Ausar." Enki made an "Oh." noise.
I really messed up Jolinar.
Jolinar got confused. Messed up how?
I drank something called a Corona. I think it was really, really strong mead.
You got drunk!
Drunk?
You got high. Jolinar laughed out loud. Where are you? I can go and call a taxi and pick you up. Back with Ausar, he sent a mental image of where he was. He showed the street name and avenue through the image.
Ok. I know where you are. Just hold on a minute and don't cause any trouble! Jolinar said sternly. He knew the dangers of a drank mage. He seen one too many often back at forest village.
Too late for that. Jolinar put down the trench coat and called a taxi on the phone. Soon enough he was on the road and in no time at all, he found Ausar sitting down on a an alley way. Jolinar noticed burn marks across the walls' the side effects of Ausar's shield spell.
"Did someone try to jump you?" Jolinar went over to Ausar, whose eyes were red with tiredness and was mumbling.
"Some street kids -hic- tried to get my money. -hic- I think I scared them a bit."
"For goodness sake Ausar! What were you thinking?" Jolinar picked Ausra by his arm and walked towards the waiting taxi.
"I -hic- needed to take my mind off things. -hic- I think it worked. Only a -hic- little bit too much."
"Apparently." Jolinar carefully placed Ausar on the backseat of the cab. "Can you take us back? I'll pay you once we get there." The driver nodded and started the car back to Jolinar's home. "So the only way for you to take your mind off things was by getting a little bit high?"
"I -hic- didn't know that was mead!" Ausar held his head painfully. "I thought it was just a bitter drink. -Hic- the taste distracted me."
"Hn." Jolinar looked out the window, watching the buildings and cars pass by. They reached their home and Jolinar helped the drunk Ausar out of the car and into their house where Enki was waiting patiently for them. "Here." Jolinar came back outside to pay the taxi driver. "You can keep the change." The driver nodded his thanks and drove off.
Enki sniffed Ausar who was on the couch and backed off. He knew that Ausar was drunk. Enki growled and showed his teeth at Ausar; clearly mad at his carelessness. "Leave me alone -hic- Enki. Jolinar already got mad at me, I don't need you to be mad at me too." Enki stopped growling and went into the kitchen.
Ausar got up and started to slowly walk towards the stairs to go to his room and get some sleep.
"What do you think you're doing?" Jolinar looked at Ausar angrily with arms crossed. He was quite mad really. Ausar always told him to be careful in this place. Don't let your guard down. Don't get careless was what Ausar always said. And what did Ausar do? He got careless.
"Bed." Ausar responded and slowly made his way up the stairs.
Jolinar sighed. He raked his hair slowly. "Hold on Ausar." Jolinar went to help Ausar go up the stairs one step at a time. Ausar tried to stay awake, but to no avail. He started to fall asleep on his feet and unconsciously walked to help Jolinar with his weight.
"Do you know -hic- what I wish for you?" Ausar slurred.
"What?" Jolinar responded so Ausar could stay awake for just a little while. He weighs too much and Jolinar needed his help to take him to his room.
"I wish that you'll be able to take back your memories…your identity. I wish that you'll be able to go back to the family that you were with before Lokik found you. You were probably -hic- a lot safer with them than you are with me. -Hic- they must miss you."
Jolinar opened the Ausar's room and helped him to his bed. "Thanks dad. I wish for the same thing."
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The next day.
"Hey Mokuba. It's me Jolinar. I'm just calling to tell you that I'm all right and that I'm feeling better. Any way, thanks for worrying. Not that I'm happy that you were worrying! I'm just glad that you were concerned. Bye."
"It seems that Jolinar is all right Mokuba." Yami deleted the message.
"Yeah." Mokuba said gratefully. "I'm glad he's alright." Mokuba looked at Yami. "Why don't we invite him to the movies today? It'll be fun."
"Only if Ausar agrees to it. You've seen how protective he is." Yami said.
"Oh yeah." Mokuba said gloomily. "Well, we'll ask Ausar if it's ok with him!" He said brightly.
"Hey! Hurry up will you!" Joey yelled from downstairs. "We're going to be late! Those messages will stay there till we come back! Hurry!"
"Coming!" Mokuba ran downstairs.
/What do you think happened two days ago/ Yugi asked.
/I don't know. But I hope it's nothing serious./
"Hurry up Yugi or Yami or whoever is taking over!" Joey whined. "We're going to be late for the movie!"
Yami ran downstairs and outside where everyone was already in the car. "What took you so long?" Joey said angrily.
"Ignore him Yuge. You know how long he's been waiting to see the movie." Tristan said.
"One year." Tea it normally, Joey said it loudly and angrily.
"Hurryhurryhurry." Joey said quickly.
"Hold on a minute Joey." Mokuba said calmly. "We're going to pick up Jolinar."
"What! That's going to make us even more late." Joey said worryingly.
"Than hang on to your seatbelts." The driver warned. Every one put on their seatbelts tightly. They all knew what was going to happen. The driver stepped on the accelerating pedal and the car flew away. The driver dodged every person and car that was in the way. Tea shrieked in terror while Joey and Tristan whooped in excitement.
"Faster! Fatser!" They both yelled. Even Mokuba was having fun. Normally, it would take twenty minutes to get from the mansion to Jolinars house, but today it only took five.
"Is he going to get a ticket?" Tea asked Mokuba.
Mokuba shook his head. "Nah. Hurry up."
Mokuba ran to the door and rung the doorbell. Nobody answered. He pressed the doorbell again. Nothing. He then pressed it many times as if he were playing a video game and then the door opened. Mokuba stepped back as Enki swung the door open and began to growl angrily at Mokuba. He barked loudly.
"Watch out Mokiba!" Tea yelled. "He may have rabies!"
"Calm down Enki." Jolinar's voice was heard. "It's just Mokuba." Enki stopped growling and barking sat down as Jolinar went to the door. "Can you tell me why you were rudely pressing the doorbell?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Eh heh." Mokuba rubbed his head embarrassingly. "I was trying to get someone to open the door so we can get your answer quickly because we're nearly late for the movie."
"Let me explain." Tea said. "We were wondering if your dad would let you come with us to the movies. Mokuba knocked rudely because we need your answer quickly because we need to get to the movies quick 'cause we're nearly late."
"Oooooooookaaaaay." Jolinar seemed to understand. "Ausar is asleep so I can't get an answer for-"
"Go ahead Jolinar." Mokuba leaned towards the right to see Asuar coming to the doorway slowly and painfully. "You can go."
Jolinar began to protest. "But what about-"
Ausar just waved him off dismissingly. "Go ahead and have some fun."
Jolinar looked at him as if he had two head. "Are you ok dad? You sure you're not sick?"
"Go ahead already. You need some friends in your life and if I'm not mistaken." He looked at Tea and Mokuba and looked across to see the others in the car. "-These people are your friends." Enki barked his agreement. "Now hurry up and get dressed. If I'm not mistaken, you're all about to miss your movie."
Jolinar stood there with his mouth open in shock. Than he snapped out of it and quickly went upstairs to change. He quickly took any clothing that he grabbed and put them on. If he had been paying attention, he would've seen that he picked out the black clothes that Lokik first found him with: the black long sleeved shirt, the black pants and the black boots. He was such in a hurry that he never noticed what he was putting on . He ran downstairs to hear Joey whining. "Hurry up Jolly! You're taking forever!"
"Hold on Mutt." Jolinar yelled back.
"He's doing this on purpose I'm telling you!" Joey said to the others. "He wants to make us late."
"There's something called patience mutt. Have you heard of it?"
"Yeah and I'm running out of it." Jolinar entered the car and Joey yelled to the driver. "Step on it will you!"
"Joey." Tea whacked Joey on the head. "That was rude! Where are your manners?" She yelled.
"Apparently he doesn't have any." Jolianr commented.
/He's starting to sound a lot like his old self don't you think Yami/ Yugi said.
Yami mentally nodded.
"So…" Yugi looked at Tea. "What movie are we watching again?"
Tea shrugged. "Probably a horror movie."
"Is Mokuba old enough to watch a horror movie?" Jolinar asked.
"Hey! I'm old enough to watch any pg-13 movies." Mokuba acted offended. "I'm definitely old enough to watch any dumb horror movie."
"I bet you twenty dollars that he'll be scared out of his pants thirty minutes into the movie." Joey said to Jolinar.
Jolinar smirked. "Deal."
Mokuba looked at Jolinar and saw what he was wearing. Those look just like my brother's! The only thing missing is the belts and the trench coat. Jolianr noticed Mokuba looking at him. "Is something wrong Mokuba?"
Mokuba snapped out of it. "Uh…no. Everything's alright."
Despite Joey saying that they were going to be late for the movie, they managed to get there just in time. "High seats! High seats!" Joey said quickly. "We get the best view." Every one just followed him to the seats. In two minutes, the movie began.
Immediately, after two deaths in the movie occurred, Jolinar's opinion in the making of the movie was that it was totally fake.
Nobody yells like that when they die. And nobody's spine bends that way. And the enemy barely hides in the darkness to make the kill. They don't take their time and they don't stab someone in a random place. Jolinar used his experience from the seven months of his known memory to judge the making of the movie. And the blood is much more darker than that!
Throughout the movie, Jolinar watched the movie and made judges on it. Occasionally, someone in the audience cried out in fright. Jolinar looked at Mokuba and saw that he was enjoying the movie. Seems that I'm going to win the bet. Jolinar thought with satisfaction. When the movie finally ended, Jolinar got up gratefully. It was a good movie in Jolinar's opinion, but it was totally fake.
"That was awesome!" Joey yelled.
"Yeah!" Mokuba agreed.
Jolinar folded his arms and smirked. "You owe me twenty dollars mutt."
"Aw!" Joey took out his wallet glumly and took out a two ten dollar bills. He gave it to Jolinar and looked at Mokuba. "I was hoping that you were going to be scared."
"Me? Scared? Ha!" Mokuba pointed at Joey. "Shows how much you know!"
Jolinar put one dollar bill into his pocket and gave the other to Mokuba. "This is for helping me win the bet."
"Hey cool! Thanks." Mokuba took the ten dollar bill and stuffed it in his pocket. "Let's go to the store. I want to buy some junk food."
"Can you take me back home first?" Jolinar asked once they got into the car. "I want to make sure that Ausar is ok. He kind of got drunk."
"Don't you want to come over to my house?" Mokuba asked.
I would like to but those visions got me too confused to even want to go back there. Jolinar shook his head. "No thanks. But thanks for the invitation."
"Ok." Mokuba said a little sadly.
Jolinar looked out the window and noticed that they were getting close getting close to his house. "Hey, can you stop here please?" The driver nodded and parked the car. Jolinar looked at the others. "Thanks for the movie and the ride."
"Why are you stopping here?" Tristan asked. "We're nearly close to your home."
"Umm…I just have the urge to walk that's all." Jolinar got out of the car. "Thanks again." He closed the door and began walking home.
Instead of walking to the front door, he walked towards the back where there were was a bush growing. Jolinar went around the bush and took out the white trench coat and the belts that he was originally found with. He hesitated. He only wanted to know what it felt like to be wearing those clothes all together! Why was he hesitating?
Jolinar shook his head. He put on the belts on his arms and legs. He put on the belt around his waist that had the words KC and he looked himself on the reflection of the window across him. He felt…normal. As if this was what he wore before. He looked at his left arm. Something was missing, but what? He pulled out the card like pendant from underneath his shirt and put it on top of his shirt for all to see.
He felt complete.
A shadow fell across him. "Gotcha." Jolinar turned around and saw a huge shadow person looming over him. Jolinar immediately kicked out and expected to meet a solid body. Instead his leg went through the body and was stuck.
"Hey!" Jolinar tried to pull out his leg but to no avail. He grabbed a branch next to him and swung at the shadow creature. The branch passed through him as if he were just thin air. Jolinar heard a bark and looked back. Enki was there growling at the shadow creature. He jumped and flew towards the creature, his teeth ready to sink into it's flesh.
But instead, he flew through the shadow creature and nearly hit the wall.
"Insolent mutt." The shadow creature waved his arm and black stuff erupted from his arm, sticking to Enki like glue. Enki growled and tried to chew off the black stuff off his body. The shadow creature grabbed the branch from Jolinar's hand and walked to Enki. Jolinar was still stuck to the body of the shadow creature and was forced to follow him to Enki.
Just as the shadow creature raised his arm to attack Enki, Jolinar quickly took part of his power. "Brisingr!" He pointed at the branch and the branch instantly incinerated. Jolinar looked at the bush beside him. "Risa!" The bush rose from the ground and slammed towards the shadow creature. Unfortunately, it just went through the creature just like the branch and Enki. Enki quickly ducked from the incoming bush.
The shadow creature grabbed Enki from the floor and threw him against the wall, making the wall crack in the process. "Enki!" Jolinar yelled in horror. The creature grabbed Enki again and threw him again against the wall. Enki yelped and fell to the floor unconscious. "Why you-" Jolinar summoned up his power and turned it into hurricane winds. His magic hand twisted the winds into a whip and he hit it on the creature.
The creature shrieked with pain and Jolinar's leg was released. The wind evaporated and Jolinar kicked the creatures face. The creature shrieked and took a step back. It swung at Jolinar and Jolinar ducked in time. He crouched and grabbed a knife that was hidden in his boot. He slashed the creatures face and he did a back flip as it swung again. Jolinar stopped and looked at the creature, ready for its' next attack.
The creature paused and began to dissolve into the ground. It slithered to the other shadows surrounding them and it disappeared. Jolinar looked around. He knew that that shadow would come up the ground and attack him. He gripped his knife tightly.
Just behind him the shadow on the ground creeped on to Jolinar's shadow.
"Enki?" Jolinar stood where he was. "Can you make a noise?" Enki whimpered. "Good."
The shadow hooked on to Jolinar's shadow and Jolinar paled when he let go of his knife.
He couldn't move. He was paralyzed.
The creature erupted from Jolinar's shadow and swung at Jolinar; knocking him out unconscious. The shadow creature began to dissolve into the earth, taking Jolinar with him too. Enki opened his eyes for a moment and watched helplessly as Jolinar began to disappear. He whimpered and closed his eyes into a temporary sleep.
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Ok. Before somebody says something about the money thing, I have no idea how japans money goes. And I'm also really, really sorry that I haven't updated in along time. I had severe writer's block and I tried to take advantage of this spring break to write this.
I hope you enjoyed this!