Chapter 7

Arianna's Escape of Reality

The kiss had soon turned to a hug with tears. One regretting his actions and the other crying of truth. It was too soon to understand the moment to Ray and Kai. But what Hilary said to Yugi they definitely heard from where they were standing. There seems to be more of Yugi's past then what they realize, but of course they wouldn't believe the story he would give, but the fact people like Marik and Mar know means that it was true with witnesses. Hilary had loss the old dignity she had and somehow she seemed more relived and happy then they had ever seen her before. And the way she wrapped her arms around Yugi was sure that she wanted him more then anyone else, the thought however made Ray's heart ache, and Kai fought the pain, trying to be as emotionless around other people as he can. Trying not to show any remorse or pain.

Hilary was crying in Yugi's chest trying to hide her face, but he looked down at her stroking her hair and letting his droplets of tears go down his face.

"Yugi, please don't hurt yourself anymore, please, just because it's an unborn child," Hilary sobbed, trying to talk. But Yugi stopped her.

"No! I could never do that! I killed you and our child, and I knew it was wrong! When Seto had find out your body was with child, I was horrified to know that I killed the next ruler of Egypt, but worse, I killed my own child. How could ever leave that behind!" Yugi sobbed, confessing.

"I saw what you did," Hilary said looking up at Yugi, "I saw after my death, when you found out about our child, you threw yourself off of your bedroom balcony, I saw it all! Even the face of our child!"

Yugi had just realized now, the face of the infant he saw during the battle with Marik last night was the face of his unborn child. Its eyes screamed in his mind, the flashback coming back to him. His own child looked like a demon, and now that face haunts him and his trails.

"Oh god!" Yugi moaned hugging Hilary tighter this time, burying his head on her chest sobbing.

Yugi had a painful cry, a cry of regret and sleepless somber, the kind of cry that makes people's thought become all dark, then breakdown and start to die out of nothing. Out of confusion and sadness and silence. He had never cried like this before. Nothing like the great Pharaoh would. In his past and blood he is a strong and noble, wise Pharaoh, but now hr is a broken man, his gears rotting away and losing its turn, finally had given up and stopped. Hilary rubbed his back hugging him back, she knew he had to do this, e has been so strong and holding it in for 5,000 years, how can anyone hold in all that pain for so long?

The bit beast belonging to Mar had suddenly had a lingering odor of melting tar and rubber. Tyson ignored the smell as much as he could, but as Mar's blade spun closer to Dragoon and practically dragged him nearer to Tyson, he would have to cover his nose and mouth trying not to let in the odor over coming his body. Kenny and Max had to do the same thing, it smell was intensely deadly, and it sure smelled like the dead.

"So does your Bit Beast gotta name Mar?" Tyson asked.

Mar grinned, "Yes he does, and his name is Snake. Now Snake, attack Tyson!"

Snake made speedy turn passing Dragoon and spinning fast towards Tyson.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Tyson ordered Dragoon without telling him to hit the side of Snake and push him over far off the side of where Tyson was standing. He kept slashing Snake over and over again, but Snake escape Tyson's gorilla warfare attack and slashed his way slicing a piece off of Dragoon.

Tyson cried in pain at the attack as Max and Kenny saw a piece of flesh with a ripped part of his yellow shirt fly off. Tyson was now really bleeding then before. All of his cuts and slashes he was over with quickly, but the fact some part of his flesh torn off, that was worse then stabbing an iron steaming hot spear through your hand.

"Tyson!" Max yelled.

"I'm fine!" Tyson moaned through the pain.

He had to finish this, he had to win, Beyblading was his life more then a game, he had to win no matter what.

He quickly stood up still holding his wound by his side under his armpit. He was starting to get dizzy but then fought the blur and somehow he felt drowsy. Figures, pain always made you sleepy.

Tyson! Tyson! Can you hear me!

Hilary's voice rang in his ears.

Tyson!

Her voice became louder.

Tyson Granger!

Her voice became nearer.

The blackness covering Tyson's sight became clear as he realized he closed his eyes for a moment, but opened them quickly to find Hilary running towards him. Yugi, Ray and Kai were right behind her. Her face was covered in tears as she saw her run almost like running for her life.

"Hilary…." Tyson muttered. Trying to make out his blurry sight. Then suddenly his eyes were full of tears.

He felt like opening out his arms for her run into them for a hug, but she stopped abruptly noticing Mar.

Hilary brought out her arms into a cup of hands and appearing water out of nowhere dripping from her hands. The water seemed to evaporate into sparkles that flowed through Tyson's body, his wounds suddenly disappearing. The wound on his side, under his armpit disappeared too. He looked at his hands, not a spot of bloody drenched in them, or on his clothes.

He looked at Hilary amazed with joy of what she just did. She nodded looking relieved of happy tears; she looked more alive then ever before. Seeing her body lifeless a couple of times were starting wear him out with worries and stress.

'This is your chance Tyson, Marik has vanished and mar is the only one left standing. You have a chance to make this game your own!" Yugi called over to him.

Tyson smiled relieved. Then he looked at Mar, his white hair sprang up of shock realizing that his partner not only failed him, but ditched him to leave the mess to himself.

The surrounding area of the Greek-like battle field suddenly vanished and went back to the construction site again, Marik's millennium rod was now not in progress anymore since he vanished.

Mar's white hair stood up in fear and nervousness. He was in for it now.

Dragoon started to glow deep blue as it started to spin faster. "This battle is done for!" Tyson yelled and Dragoon dashed towards Snake and slashed right through Mar's beyblade, slicing it in half and spinning towards to Mar, that's when Dragoon jumped up and fell down on top of Snake and sliced him in half and pieces. Mar could feel himself in dicing pain once his own flesh started to pull opposites of the side and was torn apart. Blood sprang everywhere, on dragoon that stopped spinning all of a sudden, on Tyson and the rest of the kids. Yugi took Hilary's hand to move her away from being sprayed by blood. It was a gory and infilling scene once they all realized Tyson actually killed Mar.

The Shadow Game was finally over, but all of them didn't feel like moving. That's when Tyson coughed up blood then was about to fall forward but Hilary ran and stopped him, letting himself bend down next to her as they lay on the ground. "Tyson, I'm so sorry!" Hilary cried. "It's my entire fault, everything is! I shouldn't have befriended you from the moment I met you guys!"

Tyson coughed up more blood. "C'mon Hil, it's not your fault." He tried coping with her.

"Yes it is!" She yelled, "It is my fault, all the memories that Marik placed in me, I saw it all! Everything! It was to the point Yugi came to me when I was eight years old, all those dreams were of you guys leaving me, were fear I put in myself! But now that you know what I really am, I don't think you should be friends with a monster like me."

Yugi's eyes widen at the word Hilary said. In such disbelief that she ever put on herself, it was almost like the same time she said that word to herself he saw her in the river of Egypt, bathing at her will alone.

Do you have something of me? She once said. I'm not sure if it is wise Pharaoh, to put your mind on me, after all, why would anyone fall for a monster like me?

It was that time when Yugi was Pharaoh Atem that he ignored her words and came to her in the river carelessly getting closer to her. The water was a sanctuary when she was in it, but deep down she would call herself the deadly sanctuary, for she was beautiful as a goddess yet she was as sinister as any young woman in the dark world.

"Hilary…" Max muttered to himself even though everyone heard except Hilary.

Yugi stood behind her, then he bended down and wrap his arms around her.

"What monster can do such wonderful things like you did before? If you remember what happened then you saw what difference you made in Egypt that you made on the Pharaoh, on his people, and on me." Yugi said.

"And if you were a monster, why would we come all this way just to save you, during the two days you were absent from school, we wondered where you were. I don't see a monster, I see a broken up little girl who is trying to find her way in the world like everyone else, your no different from anyone I've seen, and it's better if you are." Kai explained to Hilary.

Kai's explanation made sense, back then Arianna was just a woman in love, troubled because she had the fate of two beautiful empires on her shoulders, a goddess of destruction, and clearly just a woman herself that seen the world wisely then the goddess of the earth, Gaia. She knew things she wish didn't know, and being a woman that was favored by the Roman Emperor herself has even made men jealous and suspicious of her being.

For some strange reason, Arianna knew she wouldn't live past thirty, she knew the world could only love and hate her, and she knew that the life of a human woman was as miserable as an unloved defenseless creature. As one of Zeus' least favorite children, Arianna could only reach freedom by going to earth and finding her way in that world, just like she is doing now. Just like Hilary Tatibana is doing. Rejoining a person she loved, and making real new friends, friends no one five thousand years ago could ever have.

As Hilary realized this, she remembered all those distraught memories of a lifeless goddess in Olympus, Greece was just taken over once Sparta was the last remaining of it in the world of Persia, she remembered how sullen and gray the world seemed under the golden stairways and sparkling glass of Olympus' walls. She remembered that everything was beautiful about that place, but everything to her was disgusting. Her father was a conniving and vain god, his wife Hera looked down at certain annoying people like Echo and punished them because of their annoyance. Arianna, when very young learned that Persephone's daughter Kore, was kidnapped by Hades once, Arianna rushed out to get Kore, but Zeus stopped her and told her straight in the face.

You have no reason to save her! You are just in the way of things! I will take care of this, but you can never be part of anything! No human on earth can ever know you exist! You are not even worthy as my daughter! We all look down at you and we could see you would only bring poison in this mountain of beauty!

Zeus left passing Arianna and no tears could ever shed from her eyes, Arianna, never held a face of emotion, not until she left Olympus and disguised herself as a regular human woman that looked exactly like herself in human form. Her father didn't send anyone to go after her, and that's when Romulus and Remus where born and were nearly drowned to death by their father's jealous brother Amulius. Soon, Romulus as a young man killed his brother Remus and named the city Rome after himself, and thus Arianna was brought to the Emperor as a warrior and his right hand man.

Rome never was interesting and wonderful to Arianna; In fact everything was disquieting as it was in Mount Olympus. She remembered leaning next to a marbled wall in the room of a blind philosopher's work place, there she looked out the window of the white thin silk curtains and down at the city of Rome.

There was nothing beautiful about Rome, Troy if still existed, would be far off better then this.

Then the Emperor called to her and once she was there kneeling down with in front of him, he asked to go far off to Egypt, a place pf gold, to make allies in the sinister winds, and friends in high places for Rome to have the best, no war, and bring back anything she find of the place worth trading for.

And there on Arianna took her best men that she trained, across the sandy deserts and blistering winds, passing seas, and following the Nile River to get to the place of Egypt.

And she there she found where she truly belonged…..in his arms.

Tyson coughed interrupting Hilary's memories.

"Hey Hil, lets go home. Were done here, and maybe you could stay with us or something, that way you'll be able to get away from your mom." Tyson suggested sounding tired and croaky through the blood that spilled out of his mouth.

"How did you…." Hilary paused and looked at Yugi who let go of her without realizing it, he was standing tall behind her, even her bending down, and he still remained the same height as he did when she was eight years old.

"Never mind!" Hilary shrugged off quickly of guessing Yugi told everything, "We need to get you to a hospital, and then I'll be fine, okay?" she begged.

Tyson couldn't budge well, the wounds the shadow game inflicted was making him tired. Hilary knew that pain later on made someone drowsy from it. But Tyson gestured his head up and down as a answer of 'yes' to satisfy Hilary, then tried to breathe in and closed his eyes. The boys freaked out though, and ran to a public phone to call the ambulance; they were afraid Tyson might have made his last breath and died.

Once Tyson was on a stretcher carried to the hospital, all of them had to stay behind and go back home, they knew they won't call on how he's doing until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, depending on how sadist the doctor felt.

Ray, Kenny, Max and Kai all went back to the dojo; Hilary was about to join them but Yugi stopped her.

"You need to face your mother someday Hilary," Yugi said. Hilary's face was emotionless as Arianna was in Rome. But then Yugi took her hand and stroke her cheek with his and whispered in her ear, "I'll be there with you."

Hilary's emotionless face turned relieved once she took in a breath and finally breathed out. Physically and emotionally she wasn't ready to face her mother, but she knew by now Hilary was missing, and would put up any missing posters with picture of her on it with a 3,000 dollar award or more. That wasn't good.

But the fact Yugi was by her side, made it feel better. It was a rough and long day, Tyson got injured, Hilary finding out she's the reincarnation of the Roman Goddess who was a rogue against her own god and goddess family, and ended falling in love with a handsome, but special Pharaoh who was reincarnated again into a tutor teacher she knew since she was eight, the fact all those horrible dreams and voices she had of the bladebreakers was created by Marik and herself out of worry and depression her sick mother put in her head, and all in all, everyone ended up alive, well not everyone, but at the same they were all relieved, Hilary had to face one more monster, then facing the Bladebreakers with knowing the truth about her past, and hopefully hoping Yugi would open his arms again like he used to before.