Tales of the Wanderer: Heart of Chaos
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or Kingdom Hearts
Previously:
With a single, quick movement, the Wanderer pushed the pencil into its insertion point, closing his eyes in preparation for what was about to happen…
Meeting of Destiny: Sora, Riku and Kairi!
Before he had even opened his eyes, The Wanderer could sense that the surroundings had changed completely. He was no longer in the dark realm that he had been in originally; the air smelled sweeter though not so far off from being considered mellow and mildly sour. When he finally opened his eyes, the Wanderer saw the color of white etched on the marble floor below him. He looked down, the unconscious Yugi was still draped in his arms, the Pencil still stuck in his brain.
But he was not alone. No, he could sense great power all around him. When he turned around, he saw the grinning, well-built figure of Namine waiting in anticipation. Waiting for something amazing to happen.
The Sanctuary in the Sky was still looming over her, consuming the ceiling with bright, holy lights and fake clouds that bore no rain. The illuminating, imitating sun seemed to make her body grow luminous, as if a Nobody like her could even glow at all...
Wait a minute, what did he call her? A Nobody? The Wanderer clutched his head in confusion. "Wait a minute," he thought out loud. "A Nobody?" He could not help but feel that he had heard that term before? But where? He didn't have the faintest idea as to what a Nobody was? Was she really nobody to begin with? Was she never there at all?
It was at times like these that the Wanderer should have bought that lie detector that one day at Meijer. And it was at a good price too! Darn it! Why don't I think that my victims ever lie to me? I'm so stupid.
Anyway, there was no time for dilly-dallying. For then the Wanderer turned his head to the other side, where the silhouette of Yugi Muto still stood, unflinching, ready to kill. His ravenous eyes seemed to haunt the Wanderer's soul, or at least they would have had the Wanderer not grown so used to those stares. One other person had cast a gaze similar to that, and he was the one foe that the Wanderer would never capture or defeat, and he would grow to be the greatest monster he had ever seen…
But Yugi seemed different in that respect. He didn't seem evil. Angry, vicious, maybe. But not evil. It was as though he were placed under a veil of darkness that hid his light from the world. Perhaps he had created this veil for himself, to try and protect himself from the evils of the world. But to no avail. He could see the pain, the shame, and the fear in the duelist's eyes, and they did not suggest anything of a vicious person. Not like…
Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning rose up high in the sky, and when Yugi had finished ordering the attack, the soldier's sword began to glow a bright yellow, and the light in the room went out. Both the white lights of Castle Oblivion and The Sanctuary in the Sky's heavenly lights seemed to be extinguished, and the only light in the room came from BLS Envoy, the card that many had sought but only a few claimed. And Yugi Muto was one of them.
Maybe Yugi could win this duel. Maybe there was still light in him after all.
But The Wanderer knew right then and there that something was not right. Namine seemed not to be scared by this threat at all. In fact she seemed kind of glad. The apparent silence that had occurred was broken by a slight giggle. The Wanderer, already unsettled, was freaked out even more when that giggle became a slow laugh, eventually escalating to maniacal laughter/screaming. Her eyes suddenly became white, and white laser beams began to shoot out of her eyes.
"You haven't won, Yugi! You've done exactly what I knew you would do!"
Yugi flinched. "What do you mean? You're using a face down?"
That would have been the logical thing to do. But that is not what Namine said.
"No, Yugi. I will lose this duel. But," She raised her arm carrying her Duel Disk, "in the Envoy Duel, with defeat comes true victory, and with victory comes true defeat!"
All of a sudden, The Sanctuary in the Sky began to disappear into thin air! Slowly, the castle evaporated, but the smoke still remained, working its way down to the Duel Disk and consuming both it and Namine in a big dust cloud…
When the smoke cleared, Namine still remained, but the Duel Disk had suddenly changed appearance. Once the standard Duel Academy version, it was now a white disk with angel wings on each of the sides, and white armor enveloping the Duel Disk, while the Life Point Counter was now yellow instead of blue.
And in all of that confusion, the Wanderer had not noticed the BLS Envoy now charging towards Namine, its master in total shock over what had just happened. If it was not the fact that her Duel Disk had changed appearance, it was the phrase "with victory comes true defeat" that left him speechless. What could she mean? What could-
But then he figured it out. "Oh. My. God." He uttered. She was going to send him away, somewhere else.
"NO! STOP! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" Yugi called out in vain. But he could not stop the attack; it was too late.
Then the Wanderer turned to where Namine was standing. "You can't stop what you got yourself into! You can't stop destiny! Now I will send you far away, where you won't hurt anyone ever again!" As the golden monster thrust its sword towards Namine's chest, she put up her Duel Disk to defend herself.
And that was when all hell broke loose.
As BLS Envoy's sword entered the Life Point Counter, Namine's Life Points went to 0. But the contact had been initiated, and when they both collided, the field was consumed by light, enveloping
(no more)
everything in the room. The Wanderer himself, not being present at the time the event originally occurred, was unaffected by this, as was the unconscious Yugi of the present. But everything around them was removed from sight
(no more)
and it seemed like nothing would survive. The still-standing Yugi was screaming a scream like no other, as his
(no more!) body felt as if it was being ripped apart, like a piece of him had been pulled out of him by a dangerous force, twisting him beyond relief, until the very fabric of time seemed to dominate his senses, transporting him into a world he had not laid eyes on. That which-
(ENOUGH!)
The Wanderer was taken back by this outburst. He looked down and saw Yugi, who was now shaking in his arms. His eyes were open, and he looked at the Wanderer with pain, anger, but mostly with fear. "The shock from the memory revival must have revived his vitals! Better release him quickly!" He swiftly removed the pencil from Yugi's ear, and the surrounding disappeared and reverted to the dark realm, at the campsite.
Discarding the pencil after restoring it to its regular form, the Wanderer started breathing heavily, sweat soaking his bandaged face, before he fell to the ground, exhausted and weary. Yugi got up and exclaimed. "What the hell did you just do?"
The Wanderer got up after 2 minutes and answered Yugi's question. "That was a Relapse technique. By using the Pencil and the Essence, I can channel the thoughts in my mind and use them to purge the ones I'm looking for out of yours. Because the Essence can create life, it brought your memories to life as well, which is why I was able to see your battle with Namine without actually being there in person. Unfortunately, it has severe consequences at times to both me and you." He brushed the sweat off his forehead. "We were lucky this time, but from now on, we need to make sure you're healthy before you continue. Understand."
Yugi nodded. "Understood."
The Wanderer smiled. "Good. Now let me just get updated in my Notebook while you help yourself to some food." The Wanderer conjured up another Pencil and released some Essence, which subsequently turned into a place of rice and fish, along with some chicken and curry.
After a while, Yugi finished his food, and was now sitting normally at the fire, facing the Wanderer, who had gotten his Notebook and Pencil and was awaiting Yugi's command. "So, you ready?"
Yugi nodded. "Let's do this."
So he continued from where he left off. "When I was attacked by that flash of light, I don't know what happened. It felt like I was being shot into another world. I was flung out of Castle Oblivion and I was…"
"Was what?"
Yugi shook his head. "Forget it. You wouldn't believe me."
The Wanderer chuckled. "You're talking to a guy who's met someone that cut out his own intestines just to save his own wife, only for her to leave him for another guy. Try me!"
Yugi smiled. "All right then." He resumed his story. "So there I was, consumed by a blast of light. Next thing I know, I'm spiraling like a comet out of Castle Oblivion, although I don't know how exactly the light had lifted me out of the room-"
But as he said this, something weird happened. The surroundings around them had changed once more, to the exact moment when BLS Envoy's attack had caused Namine's Duel Disk to explode in light. The Wanderer and Yugi were still in the same place they had been sitting in in the present day, only the surroundings had made it so that they were sitting in the middle of the duel area where Yugi and Namine had fought, an event which had already happened. Yugi was taken aback at this sudden change in events. "What's going on?"
"That was the effect of the Relapse technique. When it's used, the victim can see his memories happen right before him, as though they were happening in present day. This isn't normal; very rarely does this side effect happen." The Wanderer tapped his forehead in wonder. "You truly are special, aren't you?"
Yugi ignored his comment, and watched in horror as he relived one of the worst moments of his life, when it was turned upside-down by a blast of light. He watched the past Yugi scream in agony as the bright light seemed to cut past his physical flesh, almost as if he was being split in half, one light and the other dark. The Wanderer watched with awe as past Yugi started to twist into taffy; his body was being stretched here and there, dangling across the room and moving in a clockwise circle, his internal structure wracked in pain.
Yugi gasped. He had remembered how terrible this had been for him, and tried to look away. But even as he tried to close his eyes, the worst began to unfold. BLS Envoy, who was now on the other side of the room, behind the Wanderer, transported to past Yugi, who had now become a taffy-like structure hanging loosely in the air. He took his sword, and with a swift movement, stabbed him in the heart.
"What? But that's impossible?" The real Yugi exclaimed. "How was he able to-"
"You seem to forget that in your world, the monsters are real." The Wanderer shook his head. Humans were just idiots sometimes.
Yugi blushed and scratched his head. "Er, yeah. Sorry about that."
As the blade entered past Yugi's skin, he began to glow yellow. Then his taffy body began to float in midair. At first, it only started to rise slowly, but with each passing second, the rising became faster and he started moving towards the ceiling at an alarming rate. It seemed like his feeble structure would be crushed any second. But since the current Yugi and the Wanderer were here, they knew that was not the case.
Without explanation, a hole was blasted in the wall, and the feeble taffy-body of Yugi Muto began a journey to another world, that which would reveal his destiny. The scene around the Wanderer and Yugi changed once more, to the open black sky of the world Castle Oblivion was nestled on. While still sitting, the heroes watched as a huge, white bullet of light carrying past Yugi moved with them, across grassy fields below them (because this was a memory, they could watch events from any angle they chose.), and a crossroad made of grass and road. The bullet was moving at an alarming rate, and current Yugi began narrating once again.
"As I moved across the fabric of space and time, it seemed like an eternal dream that would last forever. And then I saw this." The scenery changed once again; now, the duo were surrounded by a strange gateway, which the past Yugi was traveling in.
The Wanderer had never seen anything more breathtaking and beautiful than anything he had seen in his entire life. They were 'traveling' on a dark grey road, and the gateway was colored light green, with dark green electricity cackling around them, revealing blue-covered portal openings that showed them glimpses of the worlds beyond. He looked to his left, and saw one portal lead to a desert-like town, where he saw a strange thief stealing bread from the local market, with a pet monkey and a magic flying carpet. He also saw a portal next to that, where six children with wings that were flying in the sky, fleeing from half man-half wolf creatures with wings that were not naturally attached to their bodies, evidenced by their lackluster aerial moves and their clumsiness. But for one measly second, the Wanderer had to rub his eyes, because he could have sworn he just saw a portal to his right where he caught a glimpse of a boy killing people with a notebook and trying to become a God.
Yugi could tell by the look of awe on the Wanderer's face that he needed to explain himself. "What you are seeing, my friend, is the gateway of the worlds. This is how people are able to travel from one world to the other. Whenever someone needs to travel elsewhere for their own reasons, they take this gateway. To unlock it, you have to find the one point in your world that contains a rip in the 'fabrics of continuity' and go through it. Only then will you arrive to your destination."
The Wanderer, for once, was generally intrigued. "But how do you find this rip to begin with? And what are the fabrics of continuity?"
"Those were my first questions too when I first traveled on this highway. Now just keep watching and writing; you'll find out eventually."
As if to agree with Yugi's statement, the scenery once more changed, this time to a tropical island. It was a very peaceful island; the sun was shining, the beach was looking lovely, the water glistened brightly, and everyone was peaceful. There were tropical trees as far as the eye could see, carrying hoards of papaou fruit for everyone to enjoy. Of course, for that, they would have to be in love or whatnot, but that was beside the point.
"Ah, papaou fruit. Good times, good times" The Wanderer sighed.
Yugi was shocked. "You've actually fallen in love?"
The Wanderer slapped Yugi across the face. "No, you idiot! I mean that I've eaten it before?"
"You mean you've been here before?"
"Nope." The Wanderer beamed. "But these sell really well at Meijer. That's where I get my high quality pickles from."
Yugi rolled his eyes and looked around. They were 'floating' in the sky looking down at the islands below them, ogling at two teenagers sitting on the beach.
"Who are those guys?" The Wanderer asked.
"Two very special friends of mine…" They were kissing each other on the lips. It wasn't hardcore or anything, just small pecks followed by short breaks. The boy had light-brown spiky hair and crimson blue eyes, while the girl had red straight hair and light blue eyes. The boy was dressed in black clothing, while the other had a red dress on. They seemed to be in love, lost in each other's eyes. Yugi and the Wanderer looked past the lovers to see a white-haired young man sitting on a huge tree root, watching them make out while eating sesame seeds.
"Why don't you two just get a room and spare me all the agony!" In annoyance, he threw a couple of sesame seeds at the boy.
The boy flinched, but the girl just stuck her tounge out at the white haired man. "Oh, relax Riku. You don't HAVE to be spying on us, you know? Right, Sora?"
"Yeah!" Sora agreed. "He's probably just jealous 'cause he doesn't have a girlfriend."
The man called Riku growled. "Say that again!"
"What again?" Sora yelled playfully. "That you're stupid and not as cool as me?"
"Grrr…that's it! Now you're gonna get it!" Riku jumped off the stump with suprising agility and landed on the ground. Then he started running after Sora, who was grinning with playful delight.
"Now you're gonna get it, half-pint!"
"In your dreams!" And there they were, just the three of them, horsing around like good friends, without a care in the world.
"See those three?" Yugi pointed at the trio. "Make good notes of them; they're very important for later."
The Wanderer didn't speak. He merely nodded and wrote some notes down. He could not believe that the man who was cowering in fear a few hours ago was the same man now confidently taking charge. What had happened to make him so strong and fierce like that?
Maybe I'll never understand the human race after all. They are so interesting.
"They say destiny controls our lives, that certain events can help change them for better or for worse. It was here that I had the meeting of destiny: Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Those three angels would give me so much, so much that life would never be the same again."
"Hey! GUYS!" At this point, Riku had wrestled Sora to the grounds when Kairi called out in fear. Quickly, they rushed over to where she was standing. "What is it?" Sora asked. "Look up there!"
The bullet was crashing down, breaking all barriers of light, sound, and space, and it was aiming right at the three children.
"It was coming fast, but the moments after that event would begin a long, slow journey unlike any other…"
To be continued
What will happen to Yugi now? How is he going to escape from Destiny Islands and return to his old life before it is too late? And what exactly is the deal with the Wanderer's strange powers? Find out more in the next chapter of Tales of the Wanderer: Heart of Chaos!
