The epicness is going to build I swear! This is the last filler�chapter before the good stuff comes!
"Aibou! I demand you come back right now or so help me you will regret it!" nothing was heard in reply. "AIBOU!" Atemu continued to scream into the room.
"Its no use my king. That 'Aibou' is not coming back"
Atemu ignored them and continued to call desperately for his light.
"Aibou! Come back damn it!"
"Liege! By the Mother void, what do you see in that pathetic runt? Why can't you see that you need nothing more then us? Why must you persistently follow that useless-?"
"Cease you're talking immediately" snapped Atemu angrily. "You are never allowed to talk about him that way! You are not ever permitted to speak of such things if you have no understanding!"
Anger, it was pure anger. It was as if something in his mind had suddenly failed to produce anything else. Sure enough he was beginning to feel the dark anger well in the pit of his stomach. Festering and collecting. How ready it was to lash out.
"Do you speak of your hidden feelings for him?" hissed the shadows.
"I COMMAND YOU TO SHUT THE $ UP!" he screeched and the shadows were stunned into silence.
For now, a long period of time, he had been calling, screeching, screaming, hollering, threatening, pleading and nothing at all was working. A mental darkness was descending starting to consume him again and unless his light came back he didn't know what would happen.
'For the matter why did he even leave?' angrily thought Atemu as he continued to hoarsely cry out for his light. For the rare moment the shadows were utterly silent, consumed in their own revelations.
"G-grandpa… W-what is that?" stuttered Atemu fearfully while his widened eyes stared at the reflection of the large black spot on his neck.
"I-I" was the attempted reply from Solomon.
"A touch from Darkness" spoke out a cold, yet smooth voice from the entrance of the room.
Everyone in the room turned their heads to take in the image of a tall, brunette man clothed in blue pants, black shirt and long blue coat that would have reached the mans toes if it wasn't kicked up in an almost gravity defying manner. Regardless his face showed slight amusement without any form of smile on his face.
"Mr. Kaiba! You shouldn't be here!" started one of the female council members.
The brunette turned coldly towards her, "And you shouldn't be questioning your superior's actions," he snapped and the council woman was instantly shut up.
Kaiba. Few people were on the same influential level as the council but he was one of those few. Very few people actually knew of him as he usually kept himself hidden. In fact Atemu didn't even know his first name. He didn't know if anyone did.
"Atemu" Atemu's attention was snapped away from his thoughts to Kaiba once again. "Solver of the Millennium puzzle, what a pleasure it is to meet you" Kaiba greeted before continuing.
"The so far incurable spot on your neck is a touch of Darkness; an area of mortal skin that is blackened like night itself, upon contact with the purest physical darkness; which you received from the millennium puzzle around your neck."
Atemu blinked and decided to play stupid. "But the puzzle is dormant like the other two millennium items we currently own."
"Stop playing stupid, you of all people would have felt something… different by the least. Maybe your convenient story of memory loss should be put into this discussion as well?" He rebutted coolly.
Atemu was stunned and Kaiba continued.
"I'm not usually the one to believe in magical crap like this but the piling events are too much to ignore. The millennium items are being awakened, like the dark spirit in your puzzle."
"He's not dark-," blurted Atemu before he snapped his mouth shut.
Kaiba seemed satisfied, "So you have met it? Joy of joys for you. But lets get down to my I bothered to turn up here. I want the puzzle back and I know you won't, or cannot, give it to me if I asked. So Atemu I challenge you to a game of battle beings! The winner will get to keep the millennium puzzle and the loser's rarest card!"
Atemu's widened eyes and resolve shook before the obviously stronger opponent. He couldn't refuse the challenge because that would be an automatic surrender by recent rules and he had to at least try. Maybe, he could win, even if he had never won a dual in his entire life.
To keep his puzzle and his unsteady contact with Aibou he had no choice but to try.
"I accept your challenge."
Coming to the end of his sob the glowing boy idly listened to the calls of that Egyptian king.
'How could he be so cold? How could Atemu even think he could just automatically forgive what his shadows had done and pop right back in there? How could he be so cruelly selfish?' he thought to himself as he stood up.
He was never going back into that room again if he could help it. Ever. But he did not feel like returning to his empty soul room either at that time.
The male looked around the place he was again, realising again that he was in a corridor. There were two hallways from where he was sitting and both passageways seemed to go on forever.
He couldn't recall if he had ventured down the right passage but vaguely he remembered being dragged down the left one once before.
-Flashback-
The door crashed open and gale winds whipped up out of no where causing Atemu's back to float before the gate and his own grip to loosen dangerously. Slipping down he yelled in alarm.
"Aibou!" Was the only word Atemu could say before screaming, he slipped and was swept away to the door.
"AIBOU!" was called after him as he whizzed over stone floors, over black masses and down dark halls before finally reaching blinding light.
-End flashback-
He shook his head roughly from side to side trying to rid himself of the image.
"Screw that king" he uttered before skulking down the right hand corridor.
Simple the card battle was in the current age of war. The battle field being merely a table to lay the cards down on and a selected judge from the council to oversee and make sure that the rules were followed.
"I challenged you Atemu so you get to go first. Not that it matters."
Atemu bit back the retaliation that was on the tip of his tongue and nodded his head.
Kaiba and Atemu both picked up 6 cards and lifted challenging eyes to each other. "Lets battle!" they both exclaimed.
"I summon silver fang in attack mode and place one card face down." stated Atemu laying down a card that pictured a white wolf and another one.
"Ha, this dual is gonna be really quick then. I summon Battle Ox in attack mode. Battle Ox battles silver fang." Nothing was said by the grimacing Atemu and Kaiba smirked. "Then your silver pup bites the grave yard and you lose 500 of your life points."
Atemu took the silver fang card off the field and put it on his right hand side.
"I place one card face down on the field and end my turn," finished Kaiba.
Atemu drew a card and looked at the 5 cards in his hand. "I place Grifor onto the field, and also I equip him with horn of the unicorn that increases his attack points by 900 points which makes him strong enough to destroy your battle ox. Grifor attacks your battle ox!"
"Not so fast! I activate my trap card magic cylinder! It redirects your attack and sends it directly at your life points!"
"Oh no!"
"Oh yes. This dual is going to be over before you even know it. Your life points are now down to 2100. Do the maths."
The glowing male continued to walk down the dark and twisted corridor. But just as he was about to lose hope of going in this direction he suddenly came across a long, straight passage that lead to a beckoning opening that was filled with light.
"Forward or backward, backward being pointless so it's definitely onwards I go!" He announced his line before breaking out into a run.
Atemu had played the dual to the best of his ability but now he knew there were no way he could win and this time it was definitely not his low-self esteem talking. Kaiba's life points were at 1900 and his were at a measly 400 in comparison with Kaiba even having a blue eyes white dragon against his one monster: beta the magnet warrior.
Atemu clenched his fists painfully and gritted his teeth. How was he to win against such a cold titan? He was going to lose everything he had managed. Everything. He knew he needed help.
"Help me Puzzle" he muttered
"Did you say something Atemu? Something along the lines of 'I surrender'?" mocked Kaiba.
Atemu ignored him. "Help me… Aibou"
As if some sort of trigger had been flipped Atemu's eyes widened and his puzzle flashed gold. Choking on his own breath the quivering man slumped forward hiding his face as a thankfully familiar light invaded his vision.
"What are you trying to pull Atemu? Face me properly or you will be disqualified."
The�tri-coloured haired�man's form stopped quivering abruptly and piercing amethyst eyes instead of crimson looked around the room as if confused as to where he was before inevitably spying the card game before him.
"Oh! Dual monsters! I think I like this game." The cheerful man exclaimed.
Everyone in the room blinked including Kaiba the the complete turn around in action. The man had been almost sweating blood through stress not�a minute ago.
"This is Battle Beings not 'dual monsters' or whatever you called it. Get on with the battle Atemu!"
"Oh so we are in the middle of a dual uhh battle Mr.—" he looked up at the brunette before him somehow sensing familiarity. Abruptly metal sounds squealed in his head as mental projections sped swiftly by his eyes slowing at some points in the static.
"You don't stand a ghost of a chance -----"
"This time I'm going to beat you!"
"I don't believe in magic"
"Mokuba"
"Blue eyes White dragon!"
"Seto Kaiba"
Kaiba's eyes widened. "How do you know my first name? The only person who knows it is my brother!"
"I must have picked it up somewhere I guess."
Kaiba gritted his teeth and was silent while the bipolar like man in front of him looked at him almost too innocently with his head tilted to the right slightly. "Enough of your mind games Atemu! Hurry up and finish your turn so I can grind you to the ground with your defeat and take the millennium puzzle off you!"
'Atemu' grinned. "You are the one who will be crushed into the earth by your own defeat. So don't blame me when I win Kaiba." He said shuffling through his hand of cards.
"Yea, yea say that after the dual."
"Alright I place two cards face down on the field and end my turn."
These were 'Atemu's thoughts: Oh what a strategy I have in mind.
These were Kaiba's thoughts: The amateur left himself wide open. But why has he suddenly changed and gained confidence? Atemu is acting oddly. Not that I know him; I bet he's bipolar.
These were Solomon's thoughts: C'mon Atemu I know you can do it. I believe in you.
In the next chapter!
The thrilling conclusion of Kaiba and 'Atemu's dual will be shown; I guarantee that it will totally surprise all of you! (Guess what happens if you can). Will there be more fabulous characters? Will there be more about the Egyptian self of Atemu? Find out in the next chapter of 'Reversal'!
Ha-ha this is so fun