spiritfire: ...( smacks homework and wish the school is burned) 1 month to go till it's over and I don't owe all the Disney characters
XXXII. Ruin
"Mom!" Yugi whispered and a small light came in fron of him then the light itself became larger and larger until it became a human figure. She has flowing red hair and wearing a golden gown. She also had a silver crown on her forehead and her eyes were similar to Yugi's.
"Dear, listen to me, light and darkness coexist each other. Without light, there is no darkness, without darkness, there is no light. Many kinds of races tries to defy this principle but remember one thing, there must be a balance in this world." she said. Yugi felt that he could 'barf' but he just kept it in his head.
"I already knew that you would 'barf'," she chuckled and the violet-eyed teen went slightly red then he heard voices that mostly said about ruin, darkness, and keyblade. Yugi tries to ignore it but it's giving him a headache.
"ENOUGH!!!" she yelled and all the voices disappeared in an instant. Yugi could only stare in space.
"Yugi, don't let the 'darkness' take over your heart! You have to fight!" she said as she vanished without a trace. The spiky-haired teen tries to struggle to get himself out but it seems that he can't.
"...Mom..." Yugi whispered and all of a sudden, light began to shone everywhere and it dispelled the shadows. He grabbed the Valkyria Key and to his surprise instead of the Dark Magic Staff, it became a keyblade but the color is similar to his staff(Purple). He sliced the insides immediately and hopes he'll be able to get out.
- - -
Outside the grounds, Sora, Riku, Yami and Kaiba tried to fight off against Darkside but since Yugi was inside, they were trying to weaken it instead of destroying it. Suddenly, the spiky-haired teen got out and was panting heavily. He tighten his grip on the Keyblade and sliced it on the sides where the shadows were going to take him back.
"Any ideas how did he have this?" Riku asked, pointing at Yugi's weapon.
"Could it be???? No, I don't think so!!!" Sora said as he was trying to find the right answer. "Um, can we deal with that later?".
Yugi stared at the Keyblade and felt that there's something special in it. It glowed a little but so did Yami's Millennium Puzzle with automatically came out. All of a sudden, they were floating up and Darkside stared at them. Yugi pointed the Keyblade while Yami pointed his left hand and energy began to charge from there.
"Lumeratar!" both teens chanted and so the sun suddenly turned into an eclipse. Energy began to charge from them and when the charge is full, they launced it immediately at the Heartless. Darkside was trapped in an diamond-glass energy and it shattered causing it to damage and destroy itself. The enemy was anniliated and the ttwo of them went down on the ground. Sora, Riku and Kaiba rushed to their side.
"You have some explaining to do!" Riku growled at Yugi.
"Riku, listen I...arrrrrrrrghhhhh!!!!!!!!" Yugi said as he was about to say something when he felt an agonizing pain on his body. It seems that the emotion seal prevented him from expressing any positive emotion.
"Mom..." the violet-eyed teen said as he pain went intense then he fainted. The others stared at each other wondering what's going on.
"Um...," Sora said but Yami began to interrupt him.
"This is bad, really bad!" Yami said as he saw the seal was crackled with lightning and shadows. Riku went forward and saw it too. So did Sora and Kaiba.
"What's this?" Sora asked.
"It's the emotion seal. It seals all positve emotions that the person he has to another person like trying to apologize really badly. Worse case is that seal is forbidden and it was used as a source of unknown magic." Yami replied with a very hard frown on his face
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Riku asked, this time a bit worried.
"No, but...maybe...never mind...it'll be impossible." Yami replied as he shook his head.
"What?" Kaiba asked
"...The only way we can do is ask his mom although I'm not positive about this. If I remember correctly, Yugi's parents died in the magical war and it's impossible." Yami replied.
"...Nothing's impossible, there is a way out of this!" Sora said and all three of them stared at him. "But we have to go to Kingheartia first and see the 'King'.". With that, everyone left and they went to their destination.
- - -
With Yugi on Yami's back, it wasn't difficult for all of them to get there and Sora is now asking questions about Yami and Kaiba. Riku on the other hand didn't care that much but he's interested on the part that Yugi now has a Keyblade in his hand.
"So what's Kingheartia like?" Yami asked.
"Well, not much actually although we're gifted with tremendous magic and we're the guardians of different worlds. Like me and Riku, we wielded a special weapon called the Keyblade. The Keyblade has the power to destroy the heartless and it brings chaos and prosperity. I was the first one and my rank is the Keyblade Master." Sora replied.
"Rank???" Kaiba asked curiously.
"Our Keyblade guardian ranks are divided to four parts: Apprentice, Elite, Master, and General! Sora's rank is the master rank as he said, my rank is the elite and our friend, Kairi is the Apprentice Rank. The most powerful Keyblade guardian is the King himself." Riku replied.
"But Riku, you're a bit stronger than Sora! How come you became elite?" Yami asked and at this point, Riku frowned and Sora glared at them.
"Let's just say that there are a few circumstances that we don't want to talk about..." Sora said and Yami just shut his mouth. Kaiba has no idea what was going on and obviously, it's personal.
"Looks like we arrived!" Riku said, pointing at the tall castle. All four of them entered and to Yami and Kaiba's surprise, they were several houses and many people. It seems that its a lively continent and a wish list that you would live there. They passed by some synthesis shops, stores and weapon shops until they came to the entrance of the castle. The guards lowered their weapons as Sora and Riku entered but when Yami and Kaiba were about to enter, the guards raised their weapons in a cross like manner.
"Wait, they're with us. Let them in!" Sora said and the guards lowered their weapons. Yami was impressed with the security although Kaiba grunted for some decent block off.
They entered the castle and it was a marvelous place. Several chandeliers were all over the place and wide windows on the sides. Not to mention, several doors were here and some of them were kept guard. Sora and Riku kept walking until they came two large doors in fron of them. The Keyblade Master knocked on the door and they heard a reply that they can come in. All of them went in and much to Yami and Kaiba's surprise, there was someone there and apparently, it nearly looked like a mouse except for the round ears and the clothes it wears.
"So, how's the mission, Sora!" he asked and they kneeled down. Kaiba has absolutely no idea what's going on but Yami just follwed what they did.
"That Heartless nearly wipe us out if it weren't for these guys!" the Keyblade Master replied, pointing to Yami and Kaiba.
"Looks like we have guest and who is this young man?" he asked, pointing at Kaiba and Yugi.
"Um...your majesty, he's...uh..." Sora said as he was trying to find the right words but Kaiba suddenly interrupted.
"Wait a minute, your majesty!!!!" Kaiba blurted.
"Kaiba, you're being rude!" Riku snarled.
"It's okay and by the way, I'm the ruler of Kingheartia and the Keyblade General. My name's King Mickey and this is my wife, Queen Minnie!" the king said. "And you must be Yami from the Lunarian Continent, I presume?"
"How did you know?" Yami asked.
"We royalties were supposed to know our allies around here." Mickey chuckled but Sora and Riku were shocked.
"Wait a minute, is he a king too?" Sora asked.
"No, he's just a prince!" Minnie replied and Sora's jaw dropped and Riku didn't exaggerate that much then they remembered something just now.
"You majesty, we need help from you. It's about him." Sora said pointing at Yugi's unconscious body. Mickey went near Yugi's body as Yami placed it down on the floor. There he saw the emotion seal at least it didn't do much damage than before.
"What's this?" he asked and so Sora explained to Mickey but when he came to the part where the only way out of this seal is by talking to his mom, he suddenly interrupted.
"There is a way and since they helped you, well...listen go to the Olympus Coliseum and talk to Hercules. His father is the only one who knows where humans born with powers are located." the King said and at the same time, Yugi finally woke up.
"Uhhhh...my head hurts like hell!" Yugi groaned and Yami put him down. Riku came forward and was about to say something but Sora placed his hand in front of him and shook his head.
"You don't need to do that!" Yugi said as he stared to the ground. "If you want to know the true reason why I changed my name is...this!". He undress his upper clothes and to everyone's astonishment, his body was filled with numerous scars on his body and also whip marks on his back.
"Holy God..." Kaiba said, feeling disgusted all over.
"Who did this?" Riku asked as he stared at the scars.
"Dear Lord!" Yami breathed, covering his hands on his mouth.
"No...this is torture!" Sora growled and the royal majesties agreed.
Yugi dressed himself back and seems that he didn't mind at all. He was getting used to those kind of reactions even to his own guardian and a few 'friends'. No one said a word out of it.
"The whip marks came from those obnoxious or jealous people back in my home and the scars came from Marik when he used magic against me." Yugi said and everyone frowned at this.
"I won't say anything out of this. For now, I'll let it slide," Riku said. "But if you do that again, I'm not gonna forgive you for this!". Yugi just chuckled and kept touching the seal on his neck.
"I wish there's a way out of this seal!" he growled.
"There is...but you have to go with me to do that," Sora explained. Yugi raised his eyebrow on this and King Mickey explained the situation to him and it seems that it might be the only way.
"Are you sure it'll work?" Yugi asked.
"You'll never know till you try it!" Sora replied, grinning.
- - -
Sora and Yugi left the throne room while the rest were taking a tour around the continet with Riku. They passed through several doors and most of the guards bowed to him like royalty or something. Finally, they came to an unusual door and it seems that its different than any other doors due to the fact that it was chained. The Keyblade Master raised his weapon and unlock it. He opened the door and to Yugi's surprise, there were several portals everywhere.
"Um, where are we?" Yugi asked.
"These are portals to different worlds. King Mickey told us to go to the Olympus Coliseum and ask Hercules' dad." Sora replied as he searched the portal with his keyblade.
"His dad?" Yugi questioned.
"His dad is the only one who knows where people who were born with power or magic were," Sora said as one of the portals opened by itself. "Come on!"
Both of them went inside the portal and it was a weird feeling on the inside as if you felt that you want to know what's beyond it. Suddenly, it began to light up and they arrived at some Roman building. Sora entered the Coliseum gates where the competiton starts and luckily, a man with muscular body wearing a light brown armor came with short brown hair, wearing sandals just came out.
"Herc! How are you?" Sora said as he hugged him. The man stared and returned the hug back.
"Hey, did you come here for the Cup?" Hercules asked but Sora shook his head and it seems that it was serious. So he sat down and waited for Sora to tell something.
"Herc, we actually came here for a really big favor!" Sora said and he just noticed that he had someone with him.
"Who is he?" Hercules asked, pointing at Yugi.
"He's a friend of mine and actually he needs a little help...big time!" Sora replied with a look of seriousness on his face.
"What is it?" Hercules asked and Sora told him about the emotion seal that was on Yugi's neck and the situation. He even pointed the location of the seal. Hecules understood and stood up.
"Well, okay let's go!" he said and so the three of them left Olympus Coliseum and entered some kind of stairs that appeared from the sky. All three of them climb up and somehow, this place was secured even though Sora felt awkward about this. Finally, they arrived at a large door and with Hercules' tremendous strength they were able to get in and in front of them was a very big guy.
"Wow! Herc! Who's he?" Sora asked and Yugi just breathed at the sight of it.
"Guys, meet my dad, Zeus the king of all the Olympian Gods!" Hercules said, smiling. Sora and Yugi dropped their jaws for the person that the strong guy was referring to was a short white beard wearing a lavender toga, has muscular body and was glowing with golden aura.
"Uh...hello sir!" Sora gulped because of Zeus' height.
"Come now, no need to be nervous, I heard a lot from from my son that you helped him stopped Hades twice and you beat him at the games we held. I must say I'm impressed and...," Zeus said then looked at Yugi. "Who is this young lad?"
"Oh yeah, he's name is Yugi and actually we came here for a big help from you," Sora said. "You see, he needs to talk to his mom about the emotion seal."
"Emotion Seal?" Zeus asked, raising an eyebrow. Hercules explained to him what the Keyblade Master told him and Sora added the part the reason Yugi was taken over by the darkness because of the negative emotions. Yugi was surprised at this for he didn't knew any of that. After explaining the situation, Zeus understood the situation.
"Okay, I understand. My son, you know where to take them and besides, I was looking for a way to repay you Keyblade Master so this will do." Zeus said.
"Um, thanks." Sora said.
spritfire: ...I won't be updating starting next week because I'm meeting a friend, attend a seminar for my midterm of my major and do my thesis-like work.. hate homework . I wish it wasn't invented...mumble grumble (FYI: I'm college already)