spiritfire: I finally finish my summer class and I pass with flying colors then my classes for this semester is loaded and damn I still have my nihongo plus I have to take another summer class next year and my ruined life oh never mind let's get on with the story
Chapter XXXIX. Mirror Eyes
While Sora and Atemu were dealing with Yugi's 'dilemma'. Yami and the others were at some kind of entrance to who-knows-where. Riku and Kaiba began to have suspicions around this place added to the fact that it was too easy except when Yugi and Sora fell to the trap door. Yami on the other hand wondered how he read those hieratic languages but there's no time to dwell on that now. The three of them moved on and so far, they saw nothing but hieroglyphic pictures on the walls. Riku's eyes kept moving until suddenly he hears a sound. Kaiba and Yami noticed Riku stopped walking when suddenly a bunch of undead graverobbers.
"Great, I thought this could be an easy way in." Kaiba growled as he readied his gunblade and slashed them. Unfortunately that didn't go to well when an undead graverobber grabbed Kaiba's weapon and gave it a toss.
"What the hell!!!How come my gunblade didn't hurt them?" Kaiba asked as he took back his weapon and repeatedly slashing them.
"Wait a minute I remember something Sora said about undead enemies…." said Riku, trying to recall that particular memory.
Flashback:
Riku was with Sora at Port Royal and as usual they were checking if they were any Heartless when they encountered some pirates. As usual, the Keyblade Master knew how to deal with them since he fought them before. While he destroys the pirates, Riku on the other hand was having a hard time.
"What the hell!!! How come I can't hit them?" Riku growled when Sora cast his Thunder magic to distract them then he destroyed those pirates.
"Riku, are you okay?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, I can't believe I wasn't able to pierce the enemy as if they're invulnerable…what are they…."Riku replied.
"They're actually undead and since you never encountered them I'll tell you. Normal attacks won't work on them and sometimes even magic." Sora said.
"What! Then how do you kill those guys?" Riku asked, surprised.
"Simple, they have two weaknesses. One is the power of light like the moon and the sun. Two: Using healing spells or items. Oh yeah, the magic of the keyblade works as well." Sora replied, explaining.
"I can't believe you all that and I thought I was the smart one." Riku pouted.
"Pouting won't help you!" Sora grinned and the two of them laughed.
End Flashback
"All I have to do is to find some light here…" Riku said but there's no light here. "Looks like I have to make my own then."
"Dark Cannon!" Riku yelled and his keyblade appeared, firing several dark energy balls at the upper wall. The wall began to break and the sunlight rained down. Quickly, Riku attacked them destroying the enemy in the process.
"Hmmm…I don't think His Highness encountered those but Kaiba, I thought you would at least know how to beat those guys." Riku said.
"Well, I don't thank-you-very-much!" Kaiba said in a mocking tone of his voice.
"Don't you have any healing magic with you?" Riku asked.
"I don't bother studying magic besides it's forbidden at Altech plus even if I did, I don't want any hocus pocus in my body system." Kaiba replied, a slight frown on his face.
"I haven't learned any healing magic yet." Yami said simply, speaking for the first time since his mind wandered off.
"Great, we have to rely on healing items we have. Worst of all, only Sora has healing spells." Riku groaned.
"Don't forget Yugi. He has healing spells as well." Yami added.
"So our two healers are stuck to who who-knows-where and we're gonna get creamed by some undead creatures on the way mostly." Kaiba said in sarcasm.
"Stop being so melodramatic, Seto and let's go," Yami said, frowning.
- - -
In the deeper parts of the palace, someone is already watching Yami's movements and he was smiling.
"Now everything is according to plan but---" said a mysterious man as he saw from his eyes where Yugi and Sora fell on the trap door. "Ever since those two fell to that trap door, I wasn't able to sense their presence. Oh well as long as I have the boy."
"One thing that bothers me is that boy who fell in the trap door. It looked like 'him' but there's an obvious difference. He might be troublesome but he won't be a threat for now." He added and his eyes shifted back to where Yami is. "Come to me…come to me and meet your demise, replica Atemu!"
- - -
Yami, Riku, and Kaiba were now wandering around the place after they defeated the undead graverobbers. The prince felt a very bad vibe as they went forward and they haven't had any encounters yet. In fact, something weird is going on. A frozen look was etched on Riku's face when he saw something that isn't possible.
"Um, guys, you might want to take a look on the stone tablet at the near end." Riku said, pointing at the indicated spot. Yami and Kaiba stepped forward and they couldn't believe it. On the stone tablet was a king, pharaoh to be exact and it looked like Yami. Also around the pharaoh was seven items and one of them was the Millennium Puzzle.
"I've seen this before. This tablet… I saw it when I borrowed a book from Yugi back at Alexandria. What's going on here?" Yami stared, wide-eyed when another bunch of undead graverobbers appeared again and they can barely defend themselves then Kaiba had an idea.
"Riku, do we have Elixirs in the item inventory?" Kaiba asked.
"What for?" Riku asked.
"You'll see," Kaiba said mysteriously as Riku was searching the said item Kaiba requested. He held a medium sized bottle and inside it was some kind of white liquid.
"Here, Kaiba," Riku said as he gave it to him. Kaiba opened it and he spread it on his gunblade. Suddenly, white feathers began to sprout out from the edges of his weapon.
"I better thank the headmistress for this," Kaiba smirked as he emptied the bottle.
"Um, what's with the feathers on the edge of your gunblade?" Yami asked.
"THIS! Feathercannon!" Kaiba replied as he swung his gunblade in a full circle hitting all enemies around him and at the same time, all of the undead enemies were destroyed. Riku and Yami stared in shock.
"OH YEAH! I do OWE the headmistress, big time!" Kaiba grinned.
"What's going on?" Yami asked.
"Before I left Altech, I ask Headmistress Rinoa to give my gunblade magic capabilities like what I did just now." Kaiba replied.
"Hmm… if I remember correctly, the item Elixir has holy properties so that means…" Riku said then Kaiba nodded.
"Is it temporary or permanent?" Yami asked.
"Permanent and it goes on with my weapon upgrade and maintenance." Kaiba replied.
"Great, now this is going to be much easier now!" Riku grinned as the two of them began to defeat their enemies while Yami just use his magic just to aid them.
- - -
After the assault, all three of them were tired from fighting. Yami nearly used up all his magical energy that he asked Riku for some Ether to restore his magical energy. Drinking it, he felt much better now. He glanced at the stone tablet for some reason, he felt nostalgic. As he stared at the tablet, all of a sudden it glowed and his surroundings suddenly shifted into the images of the past.
"What the!!! Is this the past Amenti?" Yami asked then the image shifted themselves to the palace. Inside the palace is the pharaoh who is exactly looked like him and also surrounding him were six persons. One who looked like Mahad, an old man, a young man who looked like Kaiba, a strong man who was holding some kind of scales, a man who wore a key shaped item and a woman. All of them were wearing the items that Yami saw in the tablet.
"Your majesty, Akhetamen is destroying our city. He's been doing this for a long time. If this goes on…." said a man who looked like Mahad.
"Isis, what does your Millennium Necklace say?" the pharaoh asked. The woman closed her eyes and placed her hands to the item on her neck. A rigid golden necklace with an eye design suddenly glowed. Everyone waited then she opened her eyes. Her face was grim and it seems bad very bad.
"I'm afraid we're in trouble, Akhetamen has possessed the power to summon the dark gods…" Isis said, fear was etched on her face.
"The dark gods…" the old man asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Yes and I'm afraid I can't see anything else than this." Isis replied when a trembling sound was heard. They heard screams everywhere and also harsh laughter. All the bearers rush to the scene and can't believe what they saw. A huge hulking behemoth with evil red eyes was trashing all the houses, a long red serpentine dragon with sharp teeth and a skyblue diamond on its forehead was killing all the citizens and a dark yellow dragon-like creature with sharp wings on its back destroying everywhere on its path and many people were dying out there.
"Wait, those are…" one of the priests trembled.
"The legendary demon gods, Raviel, Lord of Phantasms, Uria, Lord of Searing Flames and Hammon, Lord of Striking Thunder." the pharaoh growled.
"So pharaoh, ready to admit defeat?" Aketamen asked, grinning.
"Not likely, I summon the three divine gods, Obelisk the Tormentor, Osiris the Sky Dragon and …" the pharaoh replied as he began the incantation.
Kebir wahsh min el samawat
Tafaida simi na siyah
Wa jab arlghlaba juwa haida qatal
Ghulaf el shaul maa lak kaf
Wa qualib maa ghadab fao namur
Haqofl lak quadra 'Amiq ma'ak
Hai'k haidak sawa jueradi kisil
Mobayyin fi el istandal la'b
He fi sirakh lak asma
Jinah Jarro min Ra
A huge hulking behemoth, a red serpentine beast with two mouths and an oval blue gem in the center of is head and finally flames that suddenly burst forth and in those flames was a golden beast with shining golden wings. Yami couldn't believe what he is seeing then all of a sudden, the image shifted but this time the city is in ruins, all of the residents were dead even the six priests who were aiding the pharaoh. Only Akhetamen and the pharaoh remained and so did their summons.
"Everyone lent me your strength." the pharaoh whispered and all the items glowed and so did the souls of the people who died. "I'm going to use this as a last resort and who knows when my 'replica' will come back…"
"In the name of the pharaoh, I fused all three of my summons into one. Come out, Halakti, Creator of Light!" he declared and all of a sudden beams of light surround the entire continent and a woman wearing a golden headdress and armor, has light blue skin and white dress. She released several beams of light obliterating all the demon gods including Ahketamen himself then finally the pharaoh collapsed as the Creator of light disappears.
"Yami, Yami, Yami hey are you alright?" Riku yelled as he shook the prince on the shoulders.
"Wha---? What happened?" Yami asked in bewilderment.
"You collapse when you stared at the stone tablet, are you alright?" Riku replied.
"I'm fine, let's go." Yami said as he got up and moved on.
"I have a bad feeling about this ever since we entered here…let's hope Sora and Yugi will be fine." Riku said as the three of them left the stone tablet.
- - -
Meanwhile, Sora and Atemu were having a hard time getting near that barrier and at the same time they were trying to defend themselves from the light 'Yugi'. Sora began slashing him with the keyblade but nothing is working. Atemu on the other hand didn't understood what's going on and it seems that he understood that his little 'replica' did something big and that's why he was like this.
"You will pay for destroying him!" Light Yugi yelled and he was about to cast another spell but the Keyblade Master has other ideas.
"Stopra!" Sora chanted, raising his keyblades high and all of a sudden, a gray clock appeared in front of Light Yugi and he froze. All of them wondered what's going on.
"Sora, is that?" Valkyria asked and the Keyblade Master nodded.
"Time-based magic and thinking about what Dark Yugi said, there's only one way to get the real 'Yugi' back to his senses or at least I hope so." Sora replied.
"So what's the plan?" Atemu asked.
"...Remember what Dark 'Yugi' said about you're the true 'darkness' ...well, I'm thinking you could enter his mind and you know try to heal him..." Sora replied.
"Uh, in case you don't know..I don't know much about him and ..." Atemu blurted but the Keyblade Master wouldn't had it.
"Your Majesty, please I think you're the only one..." Mahaado pleaded and so did Mana and Valkyria.
"Fine," Atemu sighed.
Sora pointed his Keyblade at the barrier and fired a line of light then to everyone's amazement the barrier was gone. Atemu went forward and for the first time, his heart skipped a beat of what he saw.
"Man he looked like my except for the height and the hair." Atemu said and he began to use his magic and placed it on the teen's forehead. For some reason, Yugi didn't resist then a few minutes have passed and he finally woke up. One problem is his wings were still here. He opened his eyes and much to everyone's surprise, his right eye became silver while the other didn't change color.
"Ow my head hurts like hell!" Yugi growled and his eyes suddenly showed fear when he saw the pharaoh face to face. He was about to cast magic but Sora told him to stop for a moment.
"Yugi, it's okay you don't have to be afraid," Sora said, trying to comfort him.
"Who the hell are you and why do you look like him?" Yugi asked in a broken voice.
"I assure you I won't cause any harm. Let me prove it to you," Atemu replied and a golden light cam from his hand. He placed it on Yugi's forehead. At first, he was reluctant but with Sora's encouragement, he finally let him and for the first time, he felt comfortable.
spiritfire: Finally, I updated no thanks to my summer class that ate my whole summer for 4 weeks and also sorry for the late update...I suffered a writer's block. Well , this is my summer giveaway to you before I start my semester. And believe me, I won't be update that much like before because my units in college is loaded with 29 units damn it please bear with me okay. Read and review