spiritfire: Sorry for the late update...I'm busy recently so Merry X-mas and Happy New Year
XLVIII. New Path
Yugi and Yami stared at each other not knowing what to say. Yugi was about to leave when the prince grabbed his wrist. The spiky-haired teen tries to struggle but for for some reason, Yami din't even let go let alone that he can touch himn in spirit form. Finally, he stopped struggling but his mind is well let's just say not in the right place.
"What do you want?" Yugi asked coldly.
"It's not that. It's more on 'what are you doing here?'" Yami replied stonily.
"None of your business," Yugi said.
The prince sighed then raised his right hand. He snapped his fingers and all of a sudden, the two of them were teleported somewhere that none of them didn't know. Petals were blomming, snow was falling and there were no vegetation life there. He let go of Yugi's wrist.
"If you won't say anything, I'm leaving," Yami said but to his surprise, the spiky-haired teen hugged him.
"I'm sorry," Yugi said and for the first time, a tear escaped from its eye. The prince stopped for a moment and didn't move from his position.
"No, I should be the one who's sorry," Yami said, facing him and kneel down wiping the teen's tears. "Besides, it was my fault for using the replication spell and I know how upset you were."
"...I guess but what are you going to do now?' Yugi asked. "You already merged with your origi---"
His sentence was cut short when tiny particles began to escape from Yugi. Looks like he was disappearing. The spiky-haired teen finally understod what he was supposed to do here and he guessed that he already did. Yami was puzzled at this.
"It looks like I have to go back where I came," Yugi said, closing his eyes as his entire spirit form began to dissipate. Yami on the other hand was surprised that spirit particles began to dissiapte.
"We will meet again right?" Yami asked.
"...Maybe...maybe not," Yugi replied as the spirit particles finally disappeared.
- - -
"Ugh, my head hurts..." Yugi whined as he was finally back where he came. He looked at the water and swore never to dive on that spring if it involves dragging you down to the bottom.
"So everything settled now?" Yoh asked. Yugi stood up and stare at the sky. He simply nodded and so the two of them left the Meditation Springs when all of a sudden, the ground shook violently. Yoh and Yugi tried to hang on. Fortunately, the ground stopped at least. Wondering what was going on, they decided to go back to the village.
As they were on their way back, Ren came running and it looks like he was a bit worried about something. Yugi closed his eyes trying to sense what was going on. At first, it was blurry then it took shape little by little. It was someone he doesn't know about but oddly familiar.
"Hmmmm...I have a bad feeling about this. The spirits were disturbed for some reason." Yoh said to himself.
By the time the three of them came, some kind of monster showed up. It has three swords, one from the left, one from the right and the last one is at the center. It looked like a machine except that it's oddly shaped.
"Fatedestroyer..." Yugi whispered, his weapon came out from his hand. All of his summons went back inside him as Anna, Joey, Ed, Kantaro, Haruka and Horohoro went to Yoh.
"About time you got back, that thing was about to mauled us!" Joey said.
"It's not supposed to exist..." Yugi mumbled as he stepped forward, charging energy for a spell. "Fira!"
The fire spell didn't work that much instead Fatedestroyer fire an energy beam on one of the swords it had. The others barely hang on and Yugi just glred. He raised his weapon and began to cast a Blizzara spell. The machine didn't do much damage so he decided to do some summoning. He summoned Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl then commanded them so combined their attacks but the damage was medium.
"Need help?" said a voice and Yugi saw someone wearing full black robes and his staff has an orb on its tip. Yugi just stared and nodded so light began to emanate from the teen then Yugi was ready to summon a new one aside from the fact that his weapon had another upgrade a tad early.
"Dark Paladin! Diffusion Wave Motion!" Yugi commanded and in an instant the warrior-magician appeared. He raised his weapon high and suddenly it emitted a wave of light, giving the enemy no chance to attack and the damage was huge aside from it took a lot of hits from it. Yoh and the others stared in awe and at the same time, shocked as well.
"Now I'm glad I'm not one of the bad guys," Joey gulped. The others agreed.
"Dreadscythe!" Yugi yelled and the orb glowed. A blade of light appeared from it and the length of it was long. He raised it up and sliced his opponent in half destroying it in the process.
"Is it over?' Ed asked as he went forward.
"Yeah, let's get out of here," Yugi said.
"Wait, if my guess is correct, you're going to the Ethrealian Continent," Anna said and everyone stare at her. Yugi didn't answer but she knew what was on his mind.
"If that's the case, you need me to lead you out of this forest," Yoh said.
"You only want to get out..." Anna said.
"Um..." Yoh gulped but she undertands so she gave him the sword and his bag.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure to keep on eye on these bozos." Anna said as she dragged the two of them while Horohoro whined. Kantaro and Haruka went back to their post and the rest of them left the village with Yoh leading the way out.
- - -
None of them talked as Yoh lead the way. Since Anna told everyone about what was on Yugi's mind and his purpose, it didn't go that well...and since when everything went that well anyway. As Yoh sliced the bushed, they finally made their way to the exit. To everyone's amazement, everything was in ruins and no vegetation was even there.
"This is the Ethrealian Continent previously known as God's servants contienent or so I thought." Yoh said.
"I never thought it would look like this...not even in my wildest dreams." Ed commented.
"Man, this place gives me the nightmares..." Joey said but Yugi kept going and the others followed.
- - -
The Ethrealian Continent was indeed in a ruin. Several houses were rugged and most of the rocks theri were brittled. Yoh sensed nothing as they went along. Yugi on the other hand begins to sense something odd. Moving on, they saw a ruined castle so they went in. Like the rest of the houses, it was also in ruin.
"We better explore the basement." Ed said and the others agreed. First they went to the corridors and opend each of it. Unfortunately, they found nothing then they went to the underground parts of the castle. Everything was in ruin even the floor itself.
Yugi continued to explore the place when his foot stepped on to something. Suddenly in front of him, a secret passage was opened. The others stared in surprise when they saw this but for Yugi for some deep reason, he knew this place like the back of his hand.
"This is odd, I know this place even though I never went there before." Yugi said as he scan this place when he saw a symbolic seal. The seal consist of several unknown letters for the most part. Ed saw this and kneeled down.
"Only the one with the divine can unseal this path lest their world shall be torn into cast." the spiky-haired teen said.
"Can you read those letters?" Joey asked.
"To tell you the truth, I can't read those letters but for some reason, I know and this place...I felt like I've been here before." Yugi replied.
It's time to know your heritage
Open your eyes and ears
The war will begin soon
"Did any of you guys hear that?" Yugi asked.
"What are you talking about?" Ed replied in question.
"Wait...Yugi do you feel familiarity of this place?" Yoh asked but before Yugi could answer, he was suddenly teleported elsewhere.
- - -
"Where am I?" Yugi asked himself. In his surroundings, the fields were all white and around him it looks like some kind of nothingness around here. He walked for a little bit until he saw a lady with white robes and short white hair wielding a tall staff.
"I've been waiting for you, Your highness," she said as she kneel before him.
"Hah!? Your highness...what's going on?" Yugi said, his head is full of question marks.
"Eh? Looks like I have to tell you everything then." she said as she waved her staff and a blinding light engulfed them. All the surroundings shifted into the same place that they entered only it was not in ruins. Rather everything looks beautiful there and the place was posperous.
"This is----" Yugi stared.
"The Etherealian Continent before it was destroyed. Long ago, it was ruled by the Einslaith royal family and the people were here were grateful to their king and queen. Their soldiers consist of powerful warriors and mages alike." she narrated. "One day, the royal family had a son. They were proud of their newborn and wanted him to give him the best but all of a sudden, one of the advisors suggested that this newborn child must be placed with the emotion seal. The royal family were horrified as they don't want their son to go through what they did but they can't turn it down since it was a traditon and so as soon as the child turned one, the seal was immediately placed."
"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that----" Yugi said and the lady nodded.
"That child was you...Your full name is Yugi Einslaith Mutou of the Etherealian Continent and please don't blame your parents for this for they have no choice on that matter. Moving on, let's see ah yes...you were learning fast and at the age of two you were able to read and write." she said as the pictures move along. Yugi couldn't beleive it. No wonder he was able to learn fast because he was from royalty. "Then many months have passed and you became four when the the continent was destroyed during the magical war. All the soldiers sacrificed themselves to protect the royal family and in the end, the continent was utterly destroyed."
The pictures began to shift as the entire continent was engulfed in flames. The royal family fled from their home. It was heartbreaking and to think that he hadn't known this all this time then she continued her tale.
"The royal family fled to the Solarian Continent and live a peaceful life there but it didn't last long. In the end they perished from the war and their only son was the only one left. But before the queen died, she gave him a keepsake. It was shaped like a curved staff and rumor has it that only the wielder of light can use it." she said as the pictures finally disappeared.
"Wait a minute, you mean it's the Valkyria Staff?" Yugi asked and she nodded.
"Oh I haven't introduced myself. I'm Silent Magician, the eighth magician and your final summons. If you want my power, you must train yourself first because the Lunar is descending soon and then the magical war." she said and Yugi sighed.
"I understand" he said and so the two of them began their training.
- - -
Meanwhile, Yoh and the others were looking for Yugi all over the castle when Silent Magician appeared in front of them. All of them were prepared to fight when he stopped them.
"I bring you no harm and I also bear a message from Master," she said and they stopped. She points her staff and all of a sudden, memories flashed including on what she told to the spiky-haired teen. All of them were shocked and surprised.
"Swear to me that you must not tell anyone about this until the Lunar has descended." she said and all them understood.
"Okay but what are we going to do in the meantime?" Ed asked.
"You can read the books here in this castle and I don't mind if you get it for your research or you could train yourselves until master has finished his special training." she said and all of them sighed so they have no choice on that matter.
As Ed went to the library, Yoh and Joey decided to train themselves for the sake of passing the time. Silent Magician on the other hand vanished and went back to where the teen is. Yugi just stare and resumed training.
- - -
"What? I can use forbidden magic!?" Yugi said in surprise as Silent Magician smirked.
"Yes but only if the emotion seal is broken and obtained those 'weapons'," she said.
"Weapon?" Yugi questioned.
"Fate Guidance and Destiny Dawn." she said with seriousness. "But since the emotion seal has several cracks already, it won't be too long now"
Yugi and Silent Magician were discussing about the forbidden magics and more on the emotion seal. From what Yugi recently told, it seems that the seal is more than just sealing an emotion. It's also a catalyst that seals the forbidden magic of the royal family. In addition, it is also a seal of another weapon which the two of them will discussed.
"Oh yes, do you know what's a staffblade?" Silent Magician asked and Yugi shook his head.
"Alright, Listen carefully, Fate Guidance and Destiny Dawn are staff blades, the most powerful weapon in all existence because it was powers of a magician and a warrior. The reason for making this was mages were weak when it comes to physical attack while warriors were weak when it comes to magic. In analogy, Mage's weakness: Physical attacks and Warriors' weakness: Magic." she replied.
"Wow, that's a mouthful," Yugi replied.
"Now back to training!" Silent Magician said and Yugi sighed heavily. His summons on the other hand just sighed and wondered if they can finished all this.
- - -
As all of them were training, dark shadows began to loom from the horizon. A young man smirked at the boundaries where the two continents used to be united.
spiritfire: It's been a while since I last updated...stupid thesis Now I'm the only one doing it no thanks to my 'partner' who transferred to another school. Sorry if the chapter sucks a bit oh well that's life...Leave reviews okay ...