spiritfire: All their sayings in their heads are all in italics
X. Confession
"Steiner... Steiner!" Zidane called out as Dark and the others entered the castle. They heard a armor clicking sound which didn't please Mahad at all. He arrived in front of his majesty and kneeled down. Everyone tried to suppress their humour on Steuner due to his weird face.
"Your majesty... Queen Garnet has been waiting for you and..." Steiner said, staring at Zidane's guest's
"Oh, those guys... they're my guests and they're here for a reason. Oh and tell Garnet I'll be on my way" Zidane said, pointing his thumb to them
"Yes your majesty" Steiner said and left them alone. The three of them began to speak their opinion on the knight in silver armor
"He's weird" Dark said, frowning
"I don't trust him" Mahad said stiffly
"I don't know what to say" Yami said as if he didn't care
"Come on, let's go and if you're gonna spat opinion on Steiner, I suggest you say it to his girlfriend" Zidane said, grinning
"Uh? Girlfriend" Dark said, feeling uneasy
"Whatever" Mahad said as they continued on to the throne room
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At the throne room, everyone's eyes were looking at the designs of the castle. One thing for sure, Alexandria's throne room was different from any normal castle. The chairs of the king and queen were at the left side corner and finally Zidane sat his position. At the same time, Garnet came and sat his position as well.
"Is that Queen Garnet?" Dark asked as he saw the beautiful queen. She has long black hair and wore a long white dress. Her crown was made of silver and at her neck was the royal pendant of her country
"Yep" Yami replied
"So... what brings you here to our beloved country?" Garnet asked
"Actually we came here because we heard that you know about the seven magicians of Solar and Lunar" Dark replied sternly
"Seven magicians of Solar and Lunar? I think I heard of them before" Zidane said crossing his arms
"Really?" Yami asked
"We'll let our scholars research about this under two conditions..." Garnet said in a serious tone.
Mahad raise his eyebrow as he heard this. "And that is?"
"One is to help the Moon Village. I think they have a big problem and the continent of Altech and Kingheartia have already sent a representative to help them. The mayor will give you the details there" Garnet explained
"And the second one?" Yami asked
"I'll tell you once you finished the mission on Moon village" Zidane said
"Alright... then where's Moon village?" Dark asked
"It's not far, all you have to do is just walk a few miles from here" Garnet replied
"If we're not assaulted with monsters that is" Dark grunted
"Well, I think that's all and if you need supplies just charge it to us" Zidane said and everyone left the throne room
- - -
Outside the castle, Dark began to resupply their stock since their endless monster assault consumed most of the items. Mahad was just looking around the city while Yami can't help thinking about Dark. He can't even get his image out of his head.
"What's wrong with me? Why am I thinking about Dark?" Yami said , trying to shake it off
"Am... I... in love...impossible...I don't even think that he's that kind of person who falls in love that easily" the Lunar prince said, fighting his blushing cheeks and decides to go back to the castle hoping that he would try to forget about it. Mahad wonders what was that all about
Meanwhile, Dark was still buying supplies from the store and now he's enclosing the payment to Alexandria castle. He wanted to look around so he decides to go back to the castle first. While he was on his way there, he can't help thinking about Yami.
"...Yami, even though I sensed a cursed item within you... I...think I should treat you better...who am I kidding...maybe he's like the others and me...in love with him" Dark said, trying to swallow his self-pity when he saw the Lunar prince was on his way back to the castle
"Yami, you were on your way back to the castle,huh?" he said and Yami noticed that he was here
"Yeah..." Yami replied, trying to act casual
"...Anything wrong?" Dark asked
"It's nothing" Yami replied and walked to the castle
"What's with him, anyway?" Dark asked himself when he saw someone with a pointy hat and a strange look on his face. He saw Dark and approach him. Dark was a little surprised at him for his face was entirely black and has yellow glowing eyes. From the looks of it, he's a mage
"You must be the guests Zidane was talking about" said the mysterious mage
"Yeah, who are you?" Dark replied and asked
"My name is Vivi, I'm the royal court magician of Alexandria" he replied
"Magician...eh...but you look" Dark frowned due to his looks
"I know what you're trying to say...It's a pity that humans needs limbs to prove their existence it's ludricious but it's not my fault I was born that way" Vivi said coolly
"This guy... somehow I felt that I wanted to get to know him" Dark said, staring intently
"Hey are you in any good of magic?" Vivi asked curiously
"Huh? How did you know?" Dark asked in surprised
" I sense a magical aura within you... so... um...wanna practice..." Vivi replied and trying to ask Dark in a formal way
"Sure but you better watch out" Dark smirked while Vivi didn't show any expression at all
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Vivi lead Dark to a hall inside the castle. It was a round place and there were a lot of books in it. They began to face each other and readied their staffs. Vivi was surprised when he saw the Valkyria Key
"Hmm... where I have seen that staff before?" Vivi said to himself
"Um...hello" Dark said, trying to get his attention
"Sorry, shall we begin?" Vivi said and out of the blue a staff appeared on his right hand. It's height is the same size as Vivi and on the top was a circular crystal object. The crystal in fact was surrounded with lightning bolts
"What kind of weapon is that?" Dark asked
"This is my weapon...Mace of Zeus" Vivi said, chuckling to himself
"Really then" Dark smirked and the two of them readied their spells
"Fire" Vivi chanted as rainbow colors circled around his body and out of nowhere, fire appeared on his feet, damaging Dark in the process
"Man he uses the same magic as I am but I can't guarantee that yet" Dark said, complaining and assuring to himself
"Thunder" Dark chanted and lightning bolts appeared above Vivi hitting him as well
"So he uses the same magic but from the looks of it, he can't cast level 2 spells yet due to his magical aura" Vivi said, analyzing Dark's magic
"Not bad, but how about this, Blizzard!" Vivi said and a big ice appeared on Dark's body and suddenly the ice shattered to bits
"Brrr... and I thought my ice magic is colder" Dark shivered
"Come on, I'm sure you could do better than that" Vivi said, pointing his weapon at Dark
"Well, how about this, Aero!" Dark said and suddenly the black mage was hit by some invisible wind blade all ovewr his body by force
"Wait a minute, Aero magic from what I heard is now a supporting spell...how did you found out that it can also be an attacking spell!" Vivi exclaimed
"I just found out recently during those endless monster assaults on my here" Dark smirked. "Since I can't use Aero as a supproting spell, I decided to do something new as you can see"
"I'm impressed but can you do this----Fira!" Vivi chanted and Dark reeled in shock
"Oh crud... he has level 2 magic...this sucks" Dark mentally cursed himself as he tried to hold on as the fire appeared agin on his feet. This time, it spiraled around him and Dark tried to shield himself but in vain
"Shoot... Fine you wanna play rough...I'll show you rough" Dark growled amd began to position himself for his powwrful spell
"Wonder what he'll cast this time" Vivi wondered as energy began to gather around Dark. "But I won't let you finish your spell"
"Too bad 'cause it's gonna cost you now... Quake!" Dark smirked and he tapped the staff on the ground. Suddenly, the earth shook violently that Vivi lost his balance and tripped himself
""B-B-Blizzara!" Vivi countered and numerous icicles appeared around Dark's body and shattered. He shivered again causing his Quake Magic to stop
"Now...time to end this...THUNDARA!" Vivi chanted as numerous lightning bolts rained down on Dark but suddenly something was blocking the magic. He wonders what went wrong
"ULTIMA!" Dark countered as the whole field became black. Vivi flinced as he heard that powerful magic
"No way he has Ultima that Kuja used... impossible" Vivi said in shock that suddenly he was blasted by its might that it cause the entire castle to shake a little. He flew backwards trying not to get a critical hit at the same time then later the magic died down. Luckily, he survived and as for Dark...it seems that he was exhausted
"Man if I hadn't cast Ultima...I'll be fish food by now" Dark said panting
"That was a good practice next time I won't take easy on you" Vivi said and he left the hall, leaving Dark to wonder on himself
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Mahad on the other hand was now on the verge of thought about the possibilities of Dark's powers. Who would have thought that he has such power that could eliminate all the monsters during their journey on the way to Alexandria. And there was another thing that has been bothering him for some time, the Millennium Puzzle of Yami...Until now he has no idea what power it possess since the day he received it at his birthday. Maybe he needs something...something that he doesn't have until now.
"I wonder if Yami can use the power of the puzzle?" Mahad said wondering to himself then he shook his head. "Ahhh, it's no use to worry over spilled milk, I better go back to the castle...they're probably waiting for me to come here anyway"
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Back at the castle, Dark began to roam around the castle and at the same time, he was thinking avbout Yami. Who could have thought a trained magician like him would actually fall in love a prince in royalty. He comtemplates his thoughts and wondered to himself. Has he found someone to understand his cold feelings or rather not just because he has a cursed item. Suddenly, he spotted Yami at the balcony of the castle and white birds began to gather around him. The birds suddenly flew away as Dark came to Yami presence.
"Dark, what are you doing here?" Yami asked
"What? Is it a crime to come here?" Dark smirked at the prince
"Uhhh...well...uh...no...I mean..." Yami stuttered trying to compose himself
"...No not really" the prince finally said
"...So what brings you to this place?" Dark asked as he walked to the corner of the balcony
"Just here to gather my thoughts, that's all" Yami replied, trying to have a good coversation
"Really? You know sometimes I did try to be alone and gather my own thoughts as well" Dark said which caught Yami in surprised
"...I see" Yami said then the two of them looked each other eye to eye as if they were trying to confess or maybe say something among themselves until...
"Hey...Yami...Dark...we better go to Moon village or do you want me to leave you guys for your little love affair" Mahad smirked as he came to the balcony as well interrupting them from their little mishap.
"Uh yes shall we" Yami said, trying to fight his blush and so is Dark who tries to shake it off
"Mahad next time you try to tell us an important matter would you at least knock" Dark said coolly, crossing his arms in disagreement
"Uh...right" Mahad chuckled , trying to suppress his humour among the two
"It seems that Dark has a little crush on the young prince...this is getting interesting" Mahad smirked
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The group left Alexandria and began their journy to Moon Village which is a walk away from their destination. As usual, once they were out...again with the endless monster assault but that didn't stop them from going their way. Like Garnet said, the village was not that far so they arrived and just in time for the meeting of the village mayor. Dark and the others looked at the village with suspicion that most of the villagers here are adults. They wondered where are the children.
"This village...I sense sadness here" Yami said in a low voice
"Hmmm...anyway we better find out what's going on" Dark said sternly
"I agree with him" Mahad said and now they were on the mayor's house. Yami knocked the door and a servant came to open it
"Who might you be?" asked the servant
"We're the representatives of Alexandria castle" Yami said and the servant nods
"Please follow me, the mayor has been waiting for you" said the servant and they all went in. He lead them to the living room where several parents were gathering at the spiky brown haired guy, saying about their worries of their beloved children. On the other side of the living room were two people. One has silver hair and wores a sleeveless yellow t-shirt with black cross stripes wearing black shoes although a bit big and the other one was a brown haired guy. He had some sort of gunblade on his back and wore a white trench coat and a black attire over it. He has cold blue eyes which made Dark scowled a little
"Mayor, the representatives of Alexandria have arrived" said the servant and he indicates Dark and the others
"I see...well let's start the meeting" the mayor said."Oh and tell the parents to wait until the meeting is over" he added and the servant nods telling the parents to either wait or come back later. The mayor told them to follow him and the representatives went along
"Okay now that we're all here allow me to introduce myself. I'm Mayor Tristan of Moon Village and this silver haired guest is from Kingheartia. His name is Riku" the mayor said pointing at the silver haired guy. "And this brown haired guy is from the continent of Altech, his name is Seto Kaiba" he added
"Please to meet you" Riku said but Kaiba didn't mind that much
"I'm Dark and this is Yami and Mahad" he said introducing themselves
"Wait a minute...Yami...hey you're the prince of the Lunarian Kingdom so...this is getting intersting" Kaiba chuckled and Yami gave Kaiba a death glare
"Settle down settle down" Tristan said and everyone went quiet as they were curious what brings them all of them here
spiritfire: God...that was beyond my limit and be happy that I extended it a bit longer than the last few chappies. Sorry it took a bit long cause I have my Midterm exams next week so I won't do much update for a while
TBC
Angel Nocturne: YES RIKU is here and more cookies for me
Smeagol: Watch the movie...The Ring
spiritfire: ...If you want to watch fine how about the others
Bakura: I don't have anything to do...might as well watch
Yami: Hey, me too
Yugi: Movie...hey wait me three
Everyone gathers to watch the movie... The Ring