Yugi's brow raised at the familiar bright light coming from the main hall. "Wow, Atem must have saved someone while I was gone! Good job Babe!" he shouted. He heard Annabelle applaud beside him. However, he was not expecting what he saw when the light cleared.
Atem lay unconscious on the floor.
"Atem?" Yugi called. Atem didn't move.
Yugi ran over to him, ignoring the children standing beside him and their apologies. He put his ear to Atem's chest. He could still hear his heart beat, but his breathing was erratic. "I… what do I do?" he looked up at Takeshi, who shrugged.
"What happened?"
"I choked him… I… I'm so sorry," Said the boy in the white tank top.
"I think if you just let him breathe, he'll be okay… but you should probably get him to a doctor just to make sure," Takeshi informed Yugi.
"Help me get him back to the office?"
As Takeshi obliged, Chichi, Zephyr and Riley came back from their search. They immediately bombarded Takeshi with questions, but he allowed Annabelle and Robin explain what they knew.
"We'll protect your gate, just make sure Atem is okay!" Chichi waved at Yugi as he hauled Atem out the door, "I will! I'll be back tomorrow night, and we'll finish this!"
Yugi made sure he was a good distance from the pizzeria before calling an ambulance. He had no idea what to tell them when they inevitably asked what happened, but Yugi certainly wouldn't be able to drag Atem all the way to the hospital.
Atem opened his eyes and blinked himself awake before shooting up and checking his surroundings. Everything was so white. It finally dawned on him that he was in a hospital.
His left side felt warm. He looked down and found Yugi's sleeping form curled up beside him. Atem slowly lowered himself back onto the bed and turned on his side so he could stroke Yugi's hair. He wondered what happened after he lost consciousness. Yugi being safe and sound next to him must have meant that whatever happened was a good thing. He ran back through his memory of the Bonnies cornering him. Debating his words amongst themselves as he suffered from lack of oxygen. A bright light.
At least one of them must have been able to forgive, then.
He gave Yugi a kiss on the forehead before allowing himself to fall asleep once more. He already knew that Yugi would go back tonight, and that there would be no arguing with him since their chances of surviving were looking better with each ally they made.
Atem awoke once more when he felt Yugi get up. "Hey Sleepyhead. How was Dreamland?"
"Atem!" Yugi exclaimed and jumped in for a hug. "I was going to get some breakfast. Er, I guess late lunch by now… what would you like?"
"I can go with you, I feel fine now."
"Are you sure? You're not dizzy or lightheaded or anything?"
"Not even a little. Why, what'd the doctor say?"
"That you'd be fine after some rest, but I'm still worried."
Atem chuckled, "Then let's get some pasta together, and I'll tell you about what happened."
"Atem why would you follow me! I told you to stay there!" Yugi coughed out through a mouthful of mac and cheese after hearing that Atem followed him out of the office.
"I told you to stay there, why should I be the only one that follows instructions?" Atem said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah but- I- I- You're right. I'm so sorry."
"Hey, I'm okay now, right?"
"But you might not have been… what happened after you tried to follow me? You obviously didn't get far…"
"By the time I'd unbolted enough of the fence to get myself under you were gone. I ran in the direction I watched you go, but I heard something that made me turn around. Next thing I know I'm surrounded by both Bonnies." Atem spared Yugi the details, knowing it would only make him worry more to hear that Atem had, for the first time that he could remember, thought he might die.
"What'd you do to make one of them choke you?"
"Nothing… they just weren't ready to show themselves to me… I tried to improvise, see if I could talk them into revealing themselves. But they still didn't do so until after they almost hung me by my shirt."
"Why did they even- Oh… right… killer animatronics…" tears began to stream down Yugi's face, "I'm so sorry Atem… I'm so sorry… because of me, you almost-"
"Shh, it's okay Aibou. Everything's okay now." Atem sat himself on the same side of the booth as Yugi and pulled him into his chest, "Everything is fine. We're both alive, we've saved seven of the children, and we've got about eight hours to relax and figure out how we tackle tonight."
"Tonight!? Atem, you can't go back after last night!"
Atem stifled the urge to agree and take the get-out-of-jail-free card, "Oh? I thought for sure you'd want to go back and finish what you started."
"I do! I will! But you can't come this time!"
"I don't care what happened to me, I won't let you go alone. In fact, because of what happened to me, I can't let you go alone. And I'll buy some damn handcuffs to chain you to the desk if I have to."
"But… but… You have work tonight, don't you!?" Yugi looked happy to have thought of something different for Atem to do.
"Nope. I already called Kaiba and told him I'm taking the week off."
"What!? And he was okay with that!?"
"Yeah. He knows I don't need the money. If he wants me to come back next week he'll shut up. …Plus I promised him another rematch… I can't say that I mind kicking his butt anyway." Atem smirked.
Yugi leaned into his chest again, "Fine, you win. We'll go back together tonight. And we'll finish this. For James, and every security guard that ever worked with the animatronics in the past and future!"
They bought Atem a new taser on the way to the restaurant in case the one he dropped had gone missing. They also picked up another flashlight and a cheap MP3 player and speakers that could run on batteries for a few days. They hoped to not need the lullaby to play that long, but they also didn't want to have to worry about it. It was almost ten, and they wanted some time to check on things and let everyone know that Atem was okay.
Yugi unlocked the office door and poked his head in. Everything looked just as he remembered it, aside from the taser and Freddy mask that had been tossed into the room under the still open gate. "Anybody home?" he whispered. He didn't hear anything, and opened the door more so he and Atem could fully enter.
The seven animatronics they made friends with stood side-by-side, facing away from them, forming a wall around the office entrance. Presumably to protect the gate, as they had promised Yugi they would. When they heard the door open, they turned around and waved as best as they could. It was still too early for them to do much else.
After a coin toss, it was decided that Atem would be the one to replace the probably now dead phone with the MP3 player and speakers. Atem knew how to flip the coin in his favor, he would never let Yugi leave the office again. Not if he could help it.
He squeezed through between their animatronic friends and made his way to the basement. Takeshi and Zephyr followed him, still unable to speak. But Atem sensed that they didn't want him wandering around alone again.
He shined his flashlight down the stairs before entering. The smell of iron still hung in the air, and Atem could see traces of blood on the table below him. He tried to imagine what Yugi must have seen and smelled when he discovered James's body, and once again kicked himself for not waking up that night.
Once on the bottom step, he scanned the room for his phone. Takeshi had left it on a table in the back. Atem made his way over to it and placed his hand on it.
Just then there was a loud robotic scream and something large hit the floor with a crash right beside him, along with various metal parts and tools. Atem's reflexes automatically flashed his light on the source of the noise, and before he even realized what it was a garbled, high-pitched voice howled with laughter and spoke, "The last scare I've GOT in me! Feels GOOD to have used it! These poor old springs just aren't what they USED TO be!" The voice's volume was inconsistent and almost difficult to make out, as some words seemed to glitch up and play at an extremely low or high pitch and speed.
Atem stared in horror at the motionless animatronic that lay before him, half outside of a cardboard box and surrounded by the rest of the box's contents. It reminded him of a mime crossed with a jack-in-the-box, with its lengthy black and yellowed striped arms and black body. Its face was the same light shade of yellow as the yellow in between the stripes, if Atem had to guess it was once white. The paint was chipped in various places. The face was badly damaged, with a dented forehead and rusted metal showing through patches of missing paint. It appeared to have once had the same rosy cheeks as the Toy animatronics upstairs, and painted on lipstick. Black lines ran down from its hollow eyes, resembling large trails of tears.
"What's wrong? Prettier than you EXPECTED?" It roared with laughter once more.
Atem could already tell this was not the time to try talking to the Marionette. He was certifiably insane. Ignoring further taunting, he set up the MP3 player and speakers as soon as he could and tucked his dead phone into his pocket. The puppet went silent when Atem turned it on, and Atem prayed he was at least content listening to the music.
Atem tried to focus on getting back to Yugi, but the Marionette's voice still rang in his head. The pitches of his voice, still distinctly the voice of a child, the way his voice sped up and slowed down to a devilish pace… and the strange, almost demonic voice that seemed to speak at the same time. It made it even harder to understand him. Atem shook his head in an attempt to shake the thoughts and focused harder on the office. He almost ran into Takeshi, who had stopped short in front of him and stared at him. Atem sensed the concern, "I'm fine. Lost in thought." He wanted to get back, help the remaining two Freddys, Balloon Boy, and… well, go home. The Marionette was screwed.
…Yugi won't let us give up. Even if he is too far-gone. Atem sighed to himself and resumed following Takeshi while Zephyr brought up the rear. More than ever now he just wanted to put this damned place behind him.
"Atem there you are! I was just about to go and look for you! You realize it's been like half an hour?" Yugi yelled through the gate, clearly distressed. Atem slipped under and Yugi began to bolt the gate down, "I'm sorry, Yugi. I got held up."
"By what!? You shouldn't have stuck around to look at whatever it was, you never know when they'll wake up now that the restaurant hasn't been open in a day! And Golden Freddy can act during the day if he really wants… he's strong, Atem."
"So is the puppet."
"Huh?"
"The Marionette was already awake when I got there. Gave me a good scare, but as Takeshi said he couldn't move much. He lunged forward and knocked over the box he was in, but just lay there after that. Well, lay there and talk…"
"He talked to you!? So we stand a chance to get him back after all!"
"Yeah, he talked… but no spirit appeared… That hasn't happened, has it? His voice was so… wrong. Demonic. He spoke like an insane person."
Yugi looked down at the floor, "Oh… Dang. Well, we'll try again after the Freddys. Maybe with all of his friends there, he can finally move on with them."
"I hope so, Yugi…"
They sat on the floor in silence as they waited for their friends to manifest. Yugi sat with his back against Atem's chest, holding his hand while Atem stroked his hair with the other. Yugi really appreciated this calm before the storm.
It didn't take long for the storm to kick up, however.
Yugi sighed and opened his eyes after having them closed for a minute, and in his face was the familiar sight of the gold bear. He flinched and threw his arms in front of his face, any attempts to back up halted by Atem already occupying the space. "Yugi! Yugi calm down! What's wrong?"
"I- he- Golden Freddy- he was right…" Yugi sighed, "I forgot he can make me hallucinate… It surprised me."
"It's alright, Aibou. He can't get us in here." Atem stood up and flipped on the generator. He listened to the now familiar hum of the generator as it sent electricity into the gate. He then helped Yugi to stand up and they both looked towards their friends, who had finally begun showing their child selves.
Eagerly Annabelle, Zephyr and Robin went to look for the remaining member of their original crew while the Toy children remained with the Duelists as bodyguards. Now that neither of them were distracted, the two men had a quick look at Morgan. She wore a midnight blue blouse and blue jeans with black Vaans. Her raven hair was pulled back into a ponytail by a white scrunchie and she had short bangs that sat just above her eyebrows.
Now that they had seen most of the children, Yugi realized that they were between eight and ten years old, with Annabelle and Riley being the only outliers so far. He imagined what Chichi had told him about her memory of her own death, happening to ten- no, eleven other children. Had this happened to the Marionette too? Yugi had no way to be sure. And even now he was only assuming that the remaining spirits were younger than Riley.
Yugi looked up when he heard their friends return. They were all trying to convince the girl they were pushing forward of how wonderful they felt now that they had let go of their anger and fear and embraced the idea of doing anything else. But he wasn't sure if she was listening. If it weren't for them pushing her Yugi was sure she would have stopped and turned around.
When they finally stopped pushing her she was standing in front of the gate. Surprisingly she was about Riley's age after all, maybe a bit older. Or a lot older. Her clothing made Yugi wonder how her parents ever let her out of the house. She was your stereotypical 80s punk girl, with hair as purple as Yugi's eyes, so fluffy Yugi had to wonder if she'd dyed a Kuriboh to wear on her head. Her shirt was crudely cut off and exposed her midriff, and she wore a jean jacket over it. She wore jean shorts over fishnet tights with a black belt that read "Lucky 13" in a gothic font all the way around, and ankle-high black rain boots. Her make-up was also done badly, whoever had applied it was either inexperienced or hadn't realized that they were painting a face not a horror scene. Her face was painted white and she had dark circles painted around her eyes, making them appear very sunken into her face. The only part that looked like the artist knew how to do correctly was the black lipstick.
She stared at them expectantly, arms folded and foot tapping with a raised eyebrow.
Yugi realized he had to break the silence, because she didn't really care if anything happened or not.
"Hi there, my name is Yugi."
"So?"
"So, uh, I want to be your friend. Your friends already seem to really like us, so-"
"So?"
"So… I mean, aren't you sick of this place?"
"So?"
Yugi frowned. This was as bad as playing the "Why" game.
Atem decided to cut in, "What's with that get-up? You're like, twelve or something? Did your parents really let you wear that?"
"I guess. I can't remember. And I don't really care to. They probably didn't care either, since I'm the only one who looks this out of place."
"That's not necessarily true. Maybe you just liked to dress that way and they were willing to support your decision."
"I guess that could be true. Who really knows. Or cares."
"You don't?"
"I stopped caring decades ago."
"Why?"
"It hurt too much."
"Why?"
"I felt abandoned. They came looking for us, but never found us. No idea if they even held a funeral. And I wouldn't care if they did."
"Why?" It took Yugi all of his effort not to even smirk at Atem turning her game on her.
"It wouldn't matter anyway. They say goodbye and then, that's it? I didn't get to say any goodbyes! I'm still stuck here with these losers!"
"Have you tried saying any goodbyes?"
"I- I can't… I still want to see them some day…"
"You'll never be able to if you don't say goodbye now and move on. You'll see them eventually, nothing lasts forever. Not even your time apart from each other."
The girl stood in silence, staring at her feet with her arms at her sides.
Atem smiled, "I'll bet your name was something cute, too, like Hailey. But you wanted something cool, like Razor."
Her arms reached back behind her and she looked down and to the right now.
"You can have whichever name you like."
She finally looked up at him, "If I'm really going to say goodbye, and get out of here… I'd like Hailey…"
He nodded in response, "I like it too."
The girl closed her eyes and held her hands up in prayer, "I'd like to say goodbye to my family, whoever they may be and wherever they are now. I know I loved you, even though I must have been a troubled kid. But I appreciate anything you did for me, and forgive you for anything you failed to do. I hope to see you again in the afterlife."
She emanated light, and when it cleared nobody even recognized her. She now had strawberry blond hair that went just a little past her shoulders and hung straight to frame her face. She wore a simple white dress with white ballet shoes. Her face was devoid of the make up that had previously made it almost unrecognizable as a face, instead showing off adorable baby cheeks peppered with freckles. She also bared the expected Eye of Wdjat.
"Wow! You're like a whole new person, Hailey!" Annabelle exclaimed.
Hailey looked down at herself, and smiled when she realized Annabelle was right. "I feel like a whole new person. I wish we could have done this years ago."
"Let's go get B.B. now!" Morgan said and ran off with Annabelle. The rest of them split up until it was just Zephyr and Takeshi as bodyguards again.
"It's almost over, guys." Yugi smiled at them from behind the gate. The children smiled back, "I'm getting excited for sure, but I dunno if I'd count on 'almost.'" Zephyr replied.
"Why not?"
"Golden Freddy and the Marionette… they're even crazier than we were before you got here."
"They never felt like 'friends…' they felt more like mob bosses. And we're the mob." Takeshi added.
"Ex-mob… you know what happens to them, right?" Zephyr laughed nervously.
"There's way more of us now! We could take 'em!"
Suddenly the lights went out. Yugi and Atem tried to get their flashlights on, but to no avail. Yugi looked where he remembered the desk being, hoping the light from the forgotten tablet might help. But it wasn't visible, either. The only thing he could think to do now was to grab Atem's hand, to which Atem responded by squeezing tightly.
"It looks like he's found us…" Yugi heard Takeshi say in the darkness. Just then they heard the slow, oddly rhythmic laughter of a child. "Ness, cut it out. They're here to help us!"
Yugi wondered if Ness and B.B. were the same person, but this was not the time to ask.
"If they wanted to help, they'd get in the suits and we'd be done with this! I'm tired of all the chaos!" the boy replied.
"We're the majority now, Ness! You three are the chaos!"
"We could go back though! Back to how things were, how they should be!"
"No, B.B. Things should never have been the way they were," Zephyr replied, "We're all dead, we should have gone on to Heaven or Hell or the afterlife or whatever. Anything is better than what we were. Come with us!"
"Who's to say that is better than the Marionette's idea of Heaven?"
"I haven't even actually moved on yet, and I'm already happier!" Takeshi chimed back in, "Trust us! We can all get out of this together!"
"But what if they get mad?"
"Who cares!? We'll all protect you! You don't have to be afraid of them anymore! You're my little Ness! Our Ness! And we can finally go play that game I told you about!"
Game? Ness? …Balloon Fight? Yugi wondered to himself, knowing it was a silly connection to make considering that his only clues were the NES and possibly the fact that the animatronic advertised balloons.
"You're assuming they even have it…"
"It's the world of the dead, of course they have it! They have everything!"
"…Promise you won't let them be mad at me?"
"Cross my heart and hope to… y'know."
Everything went from pitch black to the whitest white Yugi could ever remember seeing, and when it cleared the office looked brighter than it had ever looked. Probably due to his eyes trying to adjust.
Yugi didn't have time to see the spirit of the child. Once his eyes had adjusted enough to not hurt to look, they rested on the yellow bear slumped over in the corner of the room. Yugi couldn't tear his eyes away, his thoughts a mix of panic and curiosity as to how the bear got in. Something about the sight of it stole logic from him, and he was unable to tell himself that it wasn't real.
He didn't look away until his gaze was forced away from it when Atem grabbed him by the chin, "Yugi! It's not real!"
Yugi blinked and stared into Atem's eyes, feeling his senses return to him. "I'm sorry Atem… I don't…" Yugi's voice trailed off.
"Atem, this is night four for Yugi, and to top it off the remaining two are pissed. Golden Freddy is the only one left with any power… And he's not going to let up." Zephyr explained sadly.
"How do we stop him?"
"Same way you stopped the rest of us… Unfortunately… Yugi has to be bait."
"What!? No, I won't have it! We'll go talk to him together!"
"He's going to attack Yugi no matter where he is. If anything, taking Yugi closer to him will be much worse."
Atem swore under his breath, and Yugi spoke up, "I'll be fine, Atem. Go talk to him," he smiled the sweetest smile he could muster.
However, Atem recognized that smile. It was the one Yugi forced himself to smile when he didn't want to worry anyone.
"It's safe to let you guys into the office now, right? If you and Takeshi are in here to stop him from looking at it, I'll feel a lot better."
"Sure, there's more than enough of us to take him if we have to. Although he plays mind games more than anything…"
Atem nodded and completely removed the gate so Takeshi, Zephyr and Ness could step inside. Just as he was putting it back up the rest of the animatronics showed up, "What's going on?" asked Chichi.
Atem explained the plan while he re-bolted as much of the gate as he could and still leave room for himself to slip under on his stomach, "Can two more of you stay here and watch Yugi from this side, and the rest of you back me up?"
"Of course! Annabelle, Chichi? Can you two stay here?" Hailey asked, turning towards the girls. They each nodded. "Autobots, roll out!" She motioned for the rest of them to follow, and Atem almost cracked a smile- which was amazing, considering how much he was worrying and panicking on the inside. After the Bonnies and Marionette, Atem never wanted to be near another animatronic, insane or not.
But he would just have to bite the bullet until it was over. He was thankful that he couldn't actually see the children's animatronics when the children were manifested, because he really wasn't sure if he could handle being near them without the gate anymore either.
Yugi sat in the corner of the office surrounded by the three spirits of his friends. They told him to keep his eyes closed, and Takeshi told the story of how he started calling B.B. Ness. As Yugi had guessed, it was because of Balloon Fight. "I remember playing it in my room after my homework was done," Takeshi recounted, "My parents had gotten me a Ness for my birthday recently. Either it had to be my favorite, or my only one, because I can't say I remember any others. Or maybe it's because of B.B. that I remembered it." Ness decided to take over, "He started telling me about how I reminded him of that game, and Ness sounds like such a cool name! He offered to start calling me that… I'm so excited to be able to play it when this is all over!"
It's me!
Yugi's eyes shot open and he looked around, then they widened even further when sitting at the far end of the room between his friends he could see the golden bear slumped over, somehow looking more decrepit than ever.
It's me! It's me! It's me!
One of the children placed their animatronic arm in front of his face, but the bear already had his attention, manipulating his vision into seeing nothing but the bear. He felt his face get pushed to the side, but his eyes stayed focused on the bear.
He barely heard his friends over the chanting, "If I push his face any more I'll snap his neck! What do we do?"
"Pick him up and turn him around! He's not an owl!"
It'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'smeit'sme IT'S ME!
All Yugi saw when he was turned around was blackness with a lone, swinging light bulb illuminating a checkerboard floor. And right below the light was that goddamned bear.
Yugi screamed.
Atem heard the scream from across the restaurant, and swore under his breath. The bear hadn't been at the prize counter. Or the stage hall, or Pirate's Cove, or the arcade, or the bathrooms or the basement or the halls near it. They had already run all over the pizzeria, and they were out of ideas.
"Wait! There's one place we haven't checked!" Hailey exclaimed, and ran back towards the labyrinthine halls. The rest of them followed suit until they came upon the supply closet. Atem raised his eyebrow, then shrugged. She was pretty much right about it being the only place they hadn't looked.
Atem reached for the knob and turned it, after which he realized it wasn't actually closed. He slowly pulled it open. There, sitting on the floor with his knees to his chest and his arms laying carelessly on either side of him, was a very small boy, no older than four. He stared blankly forward, not even aware that anyone had entered his sacred space. His clothes were torn up so badly Atem could hardly tell what they once were, and he was covered in so much blood that he couldn't even tell where his wounds were. His golden blond hair cast a shadow over one of his golden eyes and his mouth hung open slightly.
Atem knelt in front of the boy and stared into his vacant eye, "Hey, are you alright?"
Atem tried not to jump when the eye he could see darted up at him. It was the only movement the child made. "I just want to help. You're safe now. Nobody can hurt you ever again." Atem smiled, and reached his hand out to the boy. He blinked as he did so, and within that split second everything changed.
He found himself in blackness lit by only a single light bulb swinging from the invisible ceiling.
It's me!
He couldn't tell where the whisper was coming from, and began to look around frantically. Suddenly the one swinging light turned into an infinite straight line expanding in front and behind him.
It's me!
Atem picked a direction and began to walk, "You don't have to be alone anymore. I'm here. My friend is here. Your friends are here. We all just want you to move on to better things."
It's me! It's me!
"Who are you!?"
Atem spun around when he heard Yugi's voice call out in response. "Yugi! Can you hear me!"
"Who are you!?"
Atem closed his eyes and thought of the light within himself, the light that Yugi had placed there and helped him grow. He felt it connect with Yugi instantly, and ran towards it without opening his eyes. He didn't need to be able to see anything but this light.
It's me! It's me!
He used the light to drown out the sound of the voice, until finally he felt Yugi right in front of him. He opened his eyes and they fell on his Aibou, crumpled up on the floor with the child standing over him. Yugi's hands were on his ears and his eyes were shut tight, and he kept screaming "Who are you!?"
He probably doesn't know the answer, just like the others. But maybe that's not what he's trying to say…
"No, it's not you."
The child looked up from Yugi, that one eye staring as blankly as ever at him.
"You're not the one who started this. You're not the one that caused this."
The child's expression didn't change, but tears did begin to spill from his eyes, leaving clean trails through the blood on his face.
It's me…
"Come on, you know more than those two words, right?"
It's…
"You can stop now. The man that did this is gone."
A low, animatronic scream reverberated throughout the wall-less room, causing Atem to drop to his knees from the pain of hearing it. When he looked up again he was surrounded by hundreds of copies of the gold bear.
"Yugi!" He immediately called out, knowing he wouldn't stand a chance, "Help me!"
Yugi's eyes snapped open, Atem's voice ringing out above the whispering. He stared up at the boy standing over him. He forced himself to get up, feeling very weak from the onslaught of horror. The boy never broke eye contact. Once he was on his knees, Yugi slapped the boy across the face, ignoring the blood that went flying and was now on his hand. Yugi placed his hands on the boy's shoulders, and the boy reestablished eye contact, he appeared to be unaffected by the action, "You have been punished. And now," Yugi smiled gently and pulled the boy into a hug, "You have been forgiven." Yugi heard the child begin to sob before everything went white.
Miqu- I appreciate your comments! I'd love for you to share my story! And I'd like to say that I believe the Mangle character is a girl, but I thought it would be too convenient if the animatronics were all possessed by children of their own gender so I wanted to mix it up. Also, I chose not to establish it somewhere within the actual story, because explaining why Atem has his own body would have distracted from the story I actually wanted to tell and I couldn't find a simple enough explanation, but this is some time after the Millennium Items have been sealed away, so no more magic.
I hope that everyone will continue to enjoy it, not much longer now before all of it will be up!