Songs of Aurelius~ The Spirit of The Millennium Mirror.
It is me again! Now in this chapter you will meet Aquarius Sapphire! Sapphire is actually pronounced "Sah-fear" by the way and Aquarius is Mako's cousin if you were wondering. Now on with the chapter!
Songs of Aurelius Chapter Four
"See you later, Garu!" I waved goodbye to Garu as he took his leave to find four more star chips to gain a spot in the finals.
We soon also set off somewhere, I don't know where since we followed Joey's sense of smell; not sure if I can trust it. We have no other choice though, so we followed to be led to fishes on a stick.
Tristan and Joey both ran for the fish in unison, was this really such a good idea? It is someone else's food…it's rather rude don't you think?
Suddenly someone came up from the cliff and said, "How dare you eat my fish! Who welcomed you anyway?" Then someone else also came up as well and said, "Yeah! That's mean!"
Tristan and Joey immediately jumped up and tried to apologize then I noticed the strangers glance at Yugi and I. Could they be wanting a duel from us? After all, they have dueling gloves. The boy of the pair asked, "Wait a minute, aren't you Yugi Mutou, the man who defeated Seto Kaiba?"
"You're Mako Tsunami, the ocean duelist! It's a pleasure to meet you!" Yugi and Mako grinned at each other and shook hands, "It's nice to meet you too, Yugi Mutou."
"Hey you're Ailis Kainarous, the duel champion of continents Europe and Australia, the Diamond Duelist!" The girl exclaimed and introduced herself, "Aquarius Sapphire is my name." I smiled and shook hands with her as Mako said, "I'm sorry. If you are friends with Yugi and Ailis, then you may eat your fill." Joey and Tristan sat back down and said, "Feeding frenzy!"
Everyone also sat down and began to eat, although I wasn't exactly hungry so didn't join in as I began scanning through my deck once again. I switched some magic and trap cards as everyone began to finish. I find it odd how we were very lucky to meet kind people like Mako and Aquarius who gladly shared their food with us. It's not every day you meet generous people.
Everyone soon finished and waved goodbye to Mako and Aquarius, however I hesitated. They did something kind for us; I suggest we pay them back although they were already leaving. Suddenly a spear launched towards Yugi, without thinking I jumped and grabbed it before it reached the ground. The group turned hearing my fall when I hit the ground, Mako and Aquarius smirked and laughed as Mako says, "You think you will eat and then walk off without paying? Well…think again." A dueling platform rose from the surface of the water and stopped rising near the cliff as both Mako and Aquarius took out their decks.
"Ailis Kainarous, I challenge you to a duel!" Aquarius exclaimed and looked straight at me. Well, on my behalf I'll just have to pay them back.
"I accept your challenge, Aquarius." Walking up to the duel platform and putting our decks in position, "Let's duel."
"I'll go first!" Aquarius drew her card and I could see her smirk. "I place three cards facedown and play Mermaid of Bliss (1750 ATK 1500 DEF) in attack mode!" The Mermaid of Bliss was… hiding in the water at her side of the field. So this will be a water battle…good thing I rearranged my deck for this.
"Now I end my turn." I nodded and drew my card, and then I realize half of my deck now was either water or magicians! I sighed realizing how stupid that was and scanned all my cards.
"I place two cards face down and I summon Skilled Dark Magician (1900 ATK 1700 DEF) in defense mode!" The Skilled Dark Magician materialized onto my side of the field. "I end my turn."
"I play Tsunami, a spell that turns the whole field into a water arena!" The field was flooded with water but luckily the Skilled Dark Magician was levitating. For every spell card played I put a spell counter on the Skilled Dark Magician, the max spell counters are three.
"Now my monster gets a field bonus of 300 ATK points!" The Mermaid of Bliss now had 2050 ATK points, "Now attack the Skilled Dark Magician!" The Mermaid of Bliss charged towards my Skilled Dark Magician.
"I activate my trap card, Spell Binding Circle. Now my Skilled Dark Magician is safe from your attack." Aquarius grits her teeth and said, "I end my turn."
I drew my next card, "I play Mystical Space Typhoon which allows me to target one of your magic or trap cards and destroy it!" The Mystical Space Typhoon hit her facedown trap card and both withered away. I put another spell counter on my Skilled Dark Magician, "I now place one card facedown and end my turn."
"I play Icria of the Sea (1900 ATK 2000 DEF) in defense mode and play Neptune's Trident, a magic card which equips a trident to Icria and gives her 500 ATK points! Now attack the Skilled Dark Magician!" I put another spell counter on the Skilled Dark Magician. Now I can do what I needed to do,
"Not so fast! For every magic card played I can place a spell counter on my Skilled Dark Magician, when I have three spell counters I can summon a Dark Magician from my hand, deck, or graveyard!" I took the Dark Magician from my deck and placed him on the field while I took out my Skilled Dark Magician and placed him in the graveyard.
"Then that means…!" Icria of the Sea tried to attack my Dark Magician but instead gotten attacked itself.
Ailis- 2000 LP
Aquarius- 1900 LP
"Now, I end my turn." I nodded and drew another card. "Dark Magician, attack her Mermaid of Bliss!"
"I play Mermaid Symphony; a trap card that allows me to bring all the Mermaids from my deck to the field in defense mode to protect my Mermaid of Bliss!"
'What do I do… wait each Mermaid all have the same amount of DEF points so she won't be able to block my Dark Magician. However the Mermaid of Bliss will still be on the field… what is she planning to do?' I watched as the Dark Magician destroys the combination of the other Mermaids but his attack didn't reach the Mermaid of Bliss.
"I play Mystic Box." A box materialized onto the playing field and my Dark Magician let himself in while a similar box showed on the other side of the playing field. The boxes close and swords pierce the box my Dark Magician was in. "Why are you killing your own monster?" Aquarius asked. "Don't call him a monster…he's my friend and just watch." The box on the other side of the playing field opened to reveal my Dark Magician who was safe and unscathed. On the other hand,
"Mermaid of Bliss!" The other box that had the swords pierced through it opened to reveal the Mermaid of Bliss. "Since your Mermaid of Bliss was in attack mode you lose 1750 life points."
Ailis- 2000 LP
Aquarius- 150 LP
"Now I activate my magic card, Quick Attack! It allows me to have my Dark Magician attack once again and this time I'm targeting your life points! Now Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!" My Dark Magician nodded at my command and Aquarius' life points hit zero.
Ailis-2000 LP
Aquarius- 0 LP
"And that's the match!" I gathered my deck together and put my star chips back on my dueling glove. Afterwards I approached Aquarius, "That was a great duel, Aquarius!" Aquarius and I shook hands as Aquarius apologized, "Sorry about the spear Ailis. Are you hurt anywhere?"" I shook my head and smiled, "That was a very precise throw but I'm fine Aquarius." Just then Mako challenged Yugi to a duel, "Looks like I should give you your won star chips." She inserted two star chips onto my glove granting me six star chips. "I'm rooting for you so duel the crap out of everyone in your way!" Aquarius gave me a thumbs up and I returned it with a smile as we turned back to see Mako and Yugi dueling.
"Should I stop him before he gets beat…" I heard Aquarius murmur to herself and she replied to herself, "Nah, I'll let him be defeated…" I could hear Aquarius chuckle darkly. 'Yeah…that's not strange at all.'
'Ailis, our minds are being invaded by an unknown…!' Aur- Hikari shouted in my mind. I quickly entered our soul room hurriedly without anyone noticing.
HIKARI'S AND AILIS' MIND
"Hikari!" I opened the stone door to Hikari's soul room and as I opened it I found Hikari sitting in her usual spot. Hikari's soul room was an archive and not just any archive, the archive she used to play with Yami. Hikari was sitting in the chair she sat in in her recently recovered memory. She appeared distressed and worried as she gestured me to sit down,
"Who is the trespasser Hikari?" I asked.
"I-I don't know but…I seem to know this trespasser somehow." Suddenly, some books from the bookshelf near us had fallen. "Come out, trespasser." Hikari and I had our eyes fixed onto the bookshelves. "Sorry but I can't do that Hikari. Although I would love to torture you until you breathe your last I'm afraid I can't. We may meet again and when we truly rendezvous I will kill you."
I could feel the trespasser leave Hikari's soul room and I could tell Hikari felt the same. "Hikari, five thousand years ago… do you remember having any enemies?" Hikari's face considerably darkened and her expression didn't look very content.
"I-I felt that… I had a rival rather than an enemy."
END OF CHAPTER FOUR
So… hope that this might push this story into a direction and I also hope to receive some feedback on what you readers think or something like that. Also there's a reason why Ailis calls Hikari rather than her own name and it will be mentioned later so stay tuned for chapter four!
PREVIEW OF CHAPTER FIVE
"You're not the real Seto and I know it. You may have his deck but you don't have his heart!"
"I know Seto and I know that he would WORRY about his own brother rather than dueling!"