spiritfire: Oh crap, I'm under the Dean of College as a professor of my subjetc again, this is going to suck...literally
Chapter XL. Starry Twilight
As Atemu's magic continued to heal Yugi, Sora reverted back to his original form. Light Yugi and the others on the other hand just stood there and stare. Little did they know the old man who guided them was watching. Few minutes have passed and the light died down. Sora went near the teen and asked if he's okay. He just simply nodded but wondered who is this person who looked like Yami.
"Yeah, I never introduced him before. His name is Atemu, the king (pharaoh) of this continent." Sora said. Yugi looked all over his surroundings but his right silver eye caught the glimpse of the elemental of himself.
"Where's the other one?" Yugi asked.
"Um, he was..." Light 'Yugi' was about to reply when Dark 'Yugi' suddenly came back. Sora was ready to beat him but the half-eyed teen stopped him.
"So you gave my summons quite a fright including Sora plus..." Yugi said as his right silver eye gaze on the pharaoh then to his summons. "Valkyria, what did I tell you about telling anyone about my personal life?"
The female mage gulped. "Um...not to tell anyone..."
"So you do remember, you know what happens if you BROKE my rules..." Yugi said in a rebuking tone. Mana suddenly became worried.
"Of course you only did it because of my sudden actions so you won't be punished. However..." Yugi stated and Valkyria gulped.
"You will be grounded instead and usually I would give you a heavy punishment for this but for that reason...I'm turning you into a doll for approximately five hours!" Yugi said sternly, his silver eye stared at the female mage as he began the spell. Silver and gold energy began to surround her and poof! She turned into a cuddly doll. Mana was delighted to see a doll so she hugged it affectionately. Unfortunately, Valkyria was nearly choked if it weren't for Mahaado telling her to stop it. Yugi then stared the white elemental of himself. He was about to run away but Yugi used a binding spell so that he won't be able to move.
"Now there are a few questions I like to ask you..." Yugi said as he was about to ask when Dark 'Yugi came back all of a sudden. In a nick of time, he used the same binding spell. "Okay where was I...Ah yes...Were you the guardians of the emotion seal?"
"What is it to you?" Dark 'Yugi replied, chuckling.
"Just because you're a part of me doesn't mean you'll do whatever you want. I can and will KILL you and heavens knows what might happen to me." Yugi said then for a moment Light 'Yugi' began to speak.
"Actually, yes but how did you know that?" Light 'Yugi' replied then asked.
"YOU! What are you trying to do???" Dark 'Yugi growled but Light 'Yugi' had it.
"Shut up! I've seen enough suffering from and please shut your sassy fucking mouth!" Light 'Yugi' shouted. "I'm also You so there!"
"Ouch..." Mahaado said, shook his head.
"As I was saying, how did you know???" Light 'Yugi' asked.
"I research it and found out more about the seal if I remember it was in the forbidden and secret book section back in my home." Yugi replied and Light 'Yugi' understood. "Next is I want to ask this 'unknown power' I had lately."
"Hmmm...don't know sorry." Light 'Yugi replied.
"I see...then last question: I know you guys are guardians of the seal so why did you try to kill Atemu. I know he's the original 'Yami' and all but this doesn't make any sense. What he has to do with the seal anyway?" Yugi asked.
"That we can't tell you or rather 'they' told us not to tell you." Dark 'Yugi' replied.
"What do you mean?" Yugi asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm sure 'they' told you where to find your answers." Dark 'Yugi' replied. Everyone stared at Yugi who stood silent then the teen nodded and understood what he said.
"Okay well then it's time to come back to me." the violet-eyed teen said and with a simple spell, the two elementals disappeared and went back inside Yugi.
"Yugi, how did you know that Atemu is the original 'Yami'?" Sora asked.
"Do you really think I didn't know? I heard your conversation while I was inside the barrier and I already knew for some reason the person who was with all this time was nothing but a replica..." Yugi replied, frownin deeply. "And you can come out now..."
Sora and the others wondered what the teen was talking about. An old man came out from behind the wall he was standing. It was the same old man who led them here. But Yugi had other ideas. He felt that there was something odd that the fact there was someone in an abandoned palace.
"Is that your hobby, Dark Magician of Chaos?" Yugi asked and the old man grinned. A whirl of energy bean to surround him and in an instant, a young man wearing black and red spandex, has dark blue skin on his face and wearing an odd headpiece with much black hair at the back. He was holding a long black staff with small red rings on the upper part near the pointed tear shaped top with an orb as its center.
"Brother, what are you doing here?" Mahaado asked.
"Nothing much, just hanging around until you guys showed up." Dark Magician of Chaos replied then saw a cuddly doll.
"Is that Valkyria?" he asked, chuckled.
"Shut it Chaos, you have no right!" Valkyria pouted angrily using the magician's nickname
"You really enjoy teasing others until our older brother um ...'smite' you..." Mahaado snickered. Chaos suddenly frowned.
"Shut up and anyway, I've been watching your 'master' for quite some time ever since he entered so I wish to fight him under one condition: He has to find a way to use his unknown powers and control it throughout the battle." Chaos said as he set his eyes on Yugi.
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"Let's see how much you can control your magic!" Chaos said as he began the fight by smashing the upper wall. A strange moon came from above and it was a mixture of white and black. Sora felt a familiar aura around him and by instinct, he placed his hand to his chest where his heart resides.
"Fire Slash!" Yugi yelled but the attack didn't affect him that much. Dark Magician of Chaos took it as his own advantage.
"Twilight, descend!" Chaos commanded. The strange moon that was here bean to shone and in an instant, the magician powered up and began to hit Yugi with every attack he can muster. Fortunately, Yugi was able to counter it but it didn't go to well.
"Darkness that descends the earth, I call upon the lost ancient power that were before me." Yugi said as he began the incantation. Dark energy began to swirl the ground and all of a sudden, it shot out. Chaos tried to stop the incantation but it was already too late. "Magic Crush!"
The dark energy turned itself into an arrow and began shooting, aiming at the magician's lower right arm but Chaos simply smack it as if it was nothing. Atemu and Yugi's summons were worried and Mahaado knew how powerful his brother can be.
"Fira!" Dark Magician of Chaos chanted. A circle of fire appeared him and one by one, the flames began to hurl by itself and bean to hit the teen. Yugi ot damge because of that. He looked at his newly born wingsa and tries to remember what Rinoa taught the replica how to fly. Slowly, he was gaining some height but at least he cna fly now or so he thinks.
"Damn it, his magic is a lot stronger than my current spells. Even if I use Spell Breaker against him, he'll try to counter it... maybe and worse case scenario, I only have incantation, healing and defending spells to back it up..." Yugi growled. "Wait a minute, theres another one but from what Marik said, I can only use it whenever I'm angry or a negative emotion... Shit!!! There has to be another way to use my unknown powers..." But before Yugi could think, Dark Magician of Chaos was going to use another spell.
"Ultimara!" the magician chanted.
"Oh crap, Yugi, look out!" Mahaado yelled when the teen countered it with Spell Breaker but Chaos knew it and used an alternative magic instead.
"Esparia!" Chaos countered and all of a sudden, Yugi's Spell Breaker was disintergrated and Ultimara sent Yugi flying on the wall. Sora was about to rush to his side but the pharoah grabbed his wrist and shook his head indicating that he shouldn't interfere. The Keyblade Master just sighed and watch.
"What should I do? His magic is too powerful now that he sealed my special attacks...Crap, I have to find a way to control that new power I had..." Yugi said so he decided to cast two of his defensive magics: Shell and Protect. He tries to remember that same power he use back in the Lunarian Continent and in Altech. Everything went black as he closed his eyes for his concentration. All he saw was a silver lining then white feathers began to fall down and even black feathers as well. Yugi's violet eyes stared at those beautiful objects. They looked like flower petals only a bit larger. His hand extended to touch it and when a feather made contact with it, a soft sensation pass through his skin.
Sora and everyone else were startled when some of Yugi's black wings started to turn white. They have no idea what's going on but Dark Magician of Chaos grinned. The teen simply opened his eyes and to everyone's surprise, Yugi's eyes had turned silver but there's one slight difference. It wasn't the usual shade...it was much lighter.
"Thundara!" Chaos chanted. Lightning began to descend from above and struck down its intended target but since Yugi has Shell, he didn't get that much damage but he felt an odd tingling on his body when he was struck.
"Um...can anybody tell me what's going on???" Sora asked in bewilderment.
"Good question...wrong person." Atemu replied as he saw this.
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Dark Magician of Chaos and Yugi began clashing their spells at each other and neither of them would give up. Sora, Valkyria, Mana and Mahaado were praying that Yugi would pass this test and since he has control of his powers...sort of... Anyway, Chaos began to cast his Ice magic but the teen just jumped away from the ground and one thing for sure, he never had a long fight like this. Not since Yami deliberately had Spell Rage on him.
"Twilight, scatter!" Chaos commanded and the moon that was above them was shattered into millions of fragments. Everyone wondered why would he do such a thing until all of a sudden the fragments began to hit Yugi all over. The teen tried to whisk them away but since they're fragments, it was no use.
"Oh hell!!! Astoyeria tripolde!" Yugi chanted and a seemingly large shield popped up out of nowhere and all the fragments did no damage to him then he used a healing spell to recover his lost energy.
"So you did learn how to control powers???...Very good and it seems like you don't need your negative emotions after all." Dark Magician of Chaos said then he lowered his staff and to everyone's amazement, the fragments of that strange moon disappered.
"Huh? What are you saying?" Yugi asked.
"I said you don't need your negative emotions sheesh do I have to repeat it to you." Chaos complained.
"Uh...sure...I think..." Yugi said, feeling a bit embrasssed.
"Well, you passed my expectations so I'll be your new summons and as you may have already knew, I can upgrade your magic since you already saw a few of them and you can use my brother's powers now...just don't overdue it and I suggest that before you go, you better find a way to hide your wings." Dark Magician of Chaos said and in an instant he disappeared. Unexpectedly, the Dark Magic Staff began to glow and suddenly it change shape. Now he was holding the same staff as Chaos' wielded during the battle.
"So what now?" Sora asked.
"Looks like I have to find a way to hide thse wings. Problem is: I don't know how..." Yugi replied, frowning.
"Hmmm...there are two ways for you to hide those wings of yours: One is to use an Apparation displacement. Two is using your magical energy to completely disappear and if you want to use it just release that same energy you use for hiding your wings." Atemu said.
"I rather use the second method than the other one..." Yugi shuddered.
"Why's that?" Mahaado asked.
"Using Apparation displacement has 50 percent chance that the object you were using as a teleportation ended up in an unlikely places." Yugi replied.
"Such as?" Sora asked.
"Oh, a bear's cave or a cemetery..." Yugi replied and Sora felt puking.
So with the pharaoh's instructions, Yug's wings slowly disappeared and much to their amazement, they see nothing at all. Yugi commanded all his summons to go back and so they did. Only Sora and Atemu were left.
"Okay now that we're settled let's get out of here and find the others." Sora said but Yugi grabbed Sora's hand and the Keyblade Master wondered what gives.
"We can't just simply 'go' out. What if we get lost and fell into some trap???" Yugi neddled.
"Point taken so what are our options..." Sora said and Yugi's eyes were set on the pharaoh. Atemu had a big question mark on the top of his head until he realized what the teen was thinking.
"I know what you're thinking but there's one problem: I can't pass or go through this point." Atemu stated firmly.
"Why?" Sora asked.
"Watch." Atemu replied and he tries to exit the place but all of a sudden, a barrier appeared and it seems that he can't go any further than this.
"This barrier prevents any spirits or invaders around here so in other words I can't get out." the pharaoh said.
"Hmmm...really, I wouldn't say that..." Yugi said, grinning.
"What are you talking about?" Sora asked in bewilderment.
"I can only think of one way for the pharaoh to pass through this barrier and it involves special spells that I forbid it myself." Yugi replied, grinning.
Which is???" Atemu asked, curious was all over his face.
"You'll see..." Yugi replied, this time he was grinning even more.
spiritfire: Sorry for the lateness, I'm been pretty busy doing my schoolwork, thesis and my life..anyway read and review...