Author's notes: Last chapter. -cries into Toshiro's chest-
Toshiro: -smirks- I told you, you would be crying in my chest.
FireWing Pegasus: -blushes- Shut up Toshiro. This chapter took a lot of thinking to work you and I into season 5.
Toshiro: -scans chapter- Can I go kill Akefia for what he did?
FireWing Pegasus: After you do the disclaimer, then you can torture him, but don't kill him.
Toshiro: Fine, Hashira owns nothing but her OC, enjoy the chapter while I go torture Akefia. -runs out of room and you can hear screams of pain and laughter-
FireWing Pegasus: -sighs- Men.
But life turns for the worst a day later. Pharaoh Aknamkanon dies very suddenly, no one is sure of the cause. After the 40 day grieving period Atemu is crowned Pharaoh, Yugi by his side as his queen. The celebration is cut short as a man that looks like Bakura, only much more dangerous, and by dangerous I mean a double T scar under his eye, short shaggy grey hair, red eyes, and a dangerous feeling to him, barges into the throne room. After depositing the various treasures he has collected from the royal tomb of the late Pharaoh Aknamkanon, he demands that the seven Millennium Items be returned to him, and summons his Ka, a monster named Diabound, one of the most dangerous Ka that always scared me when I was growing up.
He reveals himself to be Bakura's twin brother, Akefia. Their father had an affair with their mother, and he took one of the twins to be raised in his footsteps as a nobleman, leaving the other in the thief's village of Kul Elna. The six High Priests refuse to surrender the Millennium Items, and Seto, along with Joey, challenge him. The Garestgolath and Alligator Swordsman that are summoned are destroyed when Akefia calls forth Winged Sage Falcos, who was the Ka of the late Pharaoh. Akefia reveals that he took a DiaDhank from the tomb as well as the capacity to use the former Pharaoh's favorite creatures. The rest of the court are inflamed and summon various creatures to battle Diabound, but all were destroyed. I even try to combine my most powerful attack with Toshiro's most powerful attack and even though it does damage, it doesn't really phase Akefia. Not willing to have anyone suffer anymore, Atemu summons Obelisk the Tormentor, causing Toshiro and I to bow in the name of the Egyptian god monster, one of the 3 most powerful shadow creatures in existence, and sends Akefia on the retreat, if only for a short time.
Knowing time is of the essence, Mahad departs the next morning to confront Akefia in the Magicians' Training Ground, after placing a stronger seal of protection on Aknamkanon's tomb. They duel with each other, Mahad combining his Ba and Ka to become the Dark Magician, and temporally defeating Akefia, who claims the Millennium Ring. Yugi and Atemu both feel great sorrow at the loss of their friend. Isis mourns the loss of her husband as Mana weeps for her master. But we had no time to mourn. Akefia had to be stopped.
I went out toward my old home in order to be reassured, only to find fire everywhere, dead and dying horses littering the ground. I smell my mother and stagger over to her dying body. She tells me to be strong, before her head falls limp in my lap. I scream out in pure agony, before hearing a chuckle and turning to see Akefia and Diabound. I scream out again this time in pure anger and Akefia disappears. I then collapse on the ground, too mentally unstable and Toshiro finds me and takes me to the healing chambers. He tells me that my eyes look like they died and that they show the emptiness of someone who had been mentally raped. All I knew was I wan't to kill Akefia with my bare hands.
I find out that Seto, Bakura, Marik, and Shada search the city for criminals and take them to prison, discovering a young woman with white hair and blue eyes that was being beaten by the townspeople. Shada's Millennium Key reacts to her, revealing a white dragon with a strength that rivaled the Gods as her Ka, a Ka that I know all too well. Taking the young woman back to the palace, Seto realizes he had met her before he had become a priest, prompting him to tell Joey of a return journey from Nubia that had gone wrong when some bandit's had attacked. Seto had released the girl from the bandits about a few minutes prior, and he believed that she had set her Ka, a white dragon, on the bandits to return the favor of being rescued.
That evening, Akefia attacks Aknaudin while he was in his Tablet Shrine, the area where Ka removed from criminals are kept, and overpowers him. Akefia left with making Aknaudin his servant by the power of the Millennium Ring.
Akefia actions drove Atemu to give chase on me, to my delight, ordering his beloved to stay in the palace with his friends, who later disobey the command. Giving chase with the Egyptian God, Slifer the Sky Dragon, Atemu, his priest, along with Bakura, Marik and I, give Akefia a run for his money, if only for a few minutes. Akefia manages to turn the tables and destroy Slifer. While everyone is in shock at the loss of one of the Gods, Akefia throws a knife coated with magic from the Millennium Ring at Bakura, and killed him, sealing his soul in the Millennium Ring.
When Atemu started to give chase again, Akefia has Diabound crush the rock path he was on, making him and I hold on to the ledge of a chasm for dear life. After taking the Millennium Puzzle, Akefia sends the newly crowned Pharaoh and me into the darkness of the cliff.
Apparently upon hearing his husband was missing, and ignoring all warnings, Yugi sneaks out alone with Toshiro who worries for me, leaving Malik and Joey to comfort a grieving Ryou. However, Mana and Mokuba get wind of his scheme and followed him, stating that they would not let their friend look alone while Akefia was out there.
When discovered Yugi was missing, search efforts double to find the missing royals, Toshiro and me. Aknaudin also became corrupted by Akefia's influence via the Millennium Ring. His desire was now to put his son Seto on the throne. But to do that, he needed to get rid of Atemu's bloodline. Thankfully, Isis' Millennium Necklace reacted to this and she was able to get young Prince Aamir out of danger.
Angered that this part of his plan had currently failed, he turns his attention to one of the underground battle arenas, and the criminals that had been picked of the street by Seto, Bakura, Marik, and Shada the previous day, and training their Ka's to be stronger. He also found the girl with the white dragon and brought her to the arena. Seto and Joey get wind of this, interrupt the party, rescue the girl, who reveals her name to be Kisara, and officially gets on Claudina's bad side. Upsetting the stage, and with Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon, Akia, unable to reach them, Kisara is forced to released the Blue Eye White Dragon to protect them.
At the display, Aknaudin demands that Seto use the Millennium Rod and take the Blue Eyes from Kisara. Joey, however, points out that Kisara's Ba and Ka are connected. If they were to take the Blue Eyes from her, she would die. Aknaudin didn't care though. He wants his son to become the pharaoh. This leads to an argument about whether Atemu was alive or not before Seto and Joey leave with an unconscious Kisara. Upon reaching the palace again, they give the order for Kisara not to be disturbed or removed from the room.
Meanwhile, Malik, Ryou, and Joey slipped out of the palace, looking for Yugi, Toshiro, Mana, and Mokuba. They find them resting by the Nile, Mana practiced her freezing spell some more. It was then that Malik notes something in the river so he retrieved it, revealing it to be the pharaoh's cloak, making them realize Atemu and I must be around there, someplace. Their joy is cut short when some of Akefia's henchmen find them, so Mana uses a magical wave to knock the men and their horses into the river, giving them a much needed bath.
The High Priests are also looking for Atemu and me. Isis, still taking care of Aamir, sends her Ka, Spiria to search from the skies. Yugi, Toshiro and his friends find Atemu and me washed up on the shoreline, tired, but very much alive. We tell them of being rescued by a masked man whose name we did not know. Malik sends Revival Jam to alert the priests, which met up with Spiria on the way back. Not long after, Shada and Isis arrive and inform us of Akefia's location.
Atemu turns to Yugi while I turn to Toshiro and Atemu begs him to return to the palace with their son and I tell Toshiro to take everyone back on his back. Yugi says he will go, only if Atemu would return to him when they won, Toshiro makes the same statement to me.. Promise in place, Yugi, Toshiro, Mokuba, and a four and a half months pregnant Joey head back to the palace with Aamir, while Ryou, Malik, and Mana go with Atemu, Shada, Isis, and me to Kul Elna.
Arriving at the deserted village, the spirits of the village use their skeletons to attack the pharaoh and his company, which creeps me out, prompting me to tell of how I'm half horse and how animals are said to see spirits while humans can't. With the priest and his friends holding the spirits back, Atemu and I go to confront Akefia. But Akefia has the upper hand here, unfortunately. The spirits of Kul Elna are giving Akefia more strength on his home turf.
Akefia sends an attack at Atemu, who would have been killed if Mahad, now the Dark Magician, hadn't intervened and pulled his pharaoh and childhood friend out of harms way. This angers Akefia who releases Diabound. For a while, the Dark Magician and I are able to do some damage. But the spirits of Kul Elna add their strength to Diabound, making Mahad's attacks useless, and Diabound more powerful. Diabound launches another attack at Mahad, who couldn't move due to an energy drain from the battle, and is saved by Mana's newly discovered Ka, the Dark Magician Girl. Both magicians fight strongly, but Diabound is still more powerful.
The priests, Ryou, Malik, and Marik, arrive to help, while Shada remains at the front to prevent the skeleton soldiers from entering the room. Even with the combined strength of the court, Atemu and I can still not defeat Akefia, who kills Ryou and Malik due to loss of Ba, their life energy that gives their monsters strength.
Knowing Diabound has to be drained of his strength, and the only way he can do that is by removing the spirits of Kul Elna, Atemu offers his soul to guide the spirits to their final resting place. Seto immediately protests, knowing that Yugi would be heartbroken when he found out. Atemu responded by saying that the spirits blame his father, who is dead, and now his son would pay the price and do the right thing.
However, when the spirits enter Atemu's body, they are met by the spirit of Aknamkanon, who lives on in his son and guides them to the Realm of the Dead, instead of Atemu. By this action, Diabound is greatly weakened. But before we could attack, Aknaudin reveals his true colors and froze everyone in the room, allowing him and Akefia to gather the rest of the Millennium Items. Akefia kills Marik with the Millennium Rod, sealing Marik's soul into the item before he sets the rod in the place it was made.
This opens a portal that allowed a part of a great evil to come threw. It made Aknaudin its priest, and re-named him Dark Mangus, stating he would fulfill Dark Mangus' wish for Seto to become pharaoh. Dark Mangus used his new powers and cast a spell at Atemu that would kill him. However, the protector of the pharaoh's, the same man a mask named Hassan who had previously rescued Atemu, deflected the blast and destroyed the binding spell. Dark Mangus is enraged and tried to convince Seto to join him. Seto hesitates on what he should do, but it was enough time for Dark Mangus to throw him into a portal, follow him, and seal it off before anyone else can follow.
Akefia picks up where Dark Mangus left off, and had Diabound send a magic blast at the group, sending them and their dead to different locations in Kul Elna. They manage to get back together, but Karim died due to transferring the rest of his Ba to Shada so they could defeat some monsters that were giving them problems.
Atemu went off in search of Dark Mangus and Seto with me, telling the others to get back to the palace. As they start to do so, Akefia summoning Zork completely to the realm of the living. To do this, Akefia sacrifices his soul, which is also sealed into the Millennium Ring. The tablet the Millennium Items had been placed in exploded, sending them all over the ruins. Mana and Isis recovered all of them before returning to the palace. I shake in fear at seeing the god of the shadow realm in this world.
We managed to find Seto and a dead Kisara in an abandoned temple. Dark Mangus had killed Kisara by sealing her Blue Eyes White Dragon in a sealing tablet, but in turn had been killed by Seto. Dark Mangus transfers his soul to his son, and tries to kill Atemu, but Kisara had also transferred her soul into Seto, destroyed Dark Mangus, and freed Seto.
Getting back to the city, we are greeted by Yugi, Toshiro, Joey, Otogi, and Honda, who mourn the loss of their friends. Aamir, Haniya, and Tamim are back in the palace and being watched by Mana and Mokuba. Atemu just about collapsed from exhaustion, prompting Yugi to insist he go back to the palace and to let Seto lead the forces, to which Atemu agreed. Toshiro tells me to rest, but I refuse because I'm still upset at what Akefia did to my mom and family.
Despite the valiant efforts of Seto and the Egyptian armadas, Zork is too powerful, and couldn't be destroyed. Shada is killed in Zork's last attack, and becomes a wandering spirit who vows to protect the Millennium Items until the time is right. Recalling an old and ancient text that he had learned when he was young, Atemu sacrificed his life, his memories, and his name, to seal Zork away. His own soul was sealed into the Millennium Puzzle.
However, his shadow magic isn't enough, since Zork is also shadow and darkness. So Yugi sacrifices his life and uses his Japanese light magic to complete the sealing. Just before he dies, Yugi proclaims Seto to be the new pharaoh until Aamir is old enough to rule. He also asks for the Millennium Puzzle to be shattered and placed in their tomb, and for me to be the guardian of the puzzle until the day that Atemu is free from the puzzle. However, his light magic didn't seal him away in the Millennium Puzzle with Atemu, the darkness would have driven him insane. Instead, Isis and Seto cast a spell that would reincarnate him, and their dead friends, into the future. Toshiro and I talk to each other and cast a curse on ourselves that will keep us from aging and dying until Atemu is free.
Complying with the young man's dying wishes, Seto and Joey place the shattered puzzle in their tomb, the bodies mummified in a secret room. They also raised Aamir, and the daughter born to them, whom they name Kisara. Otogi and Honda continued to raise Tamim, and also raised Haniya for Ryou and Bakura. I become the guardian of the puzzle and tell Toshiro to return to Japan and that we would be reunited one day. Toshiro reluctantly leaves and I enter the tomb looking away with tears falling from my ruby eyes. Once Aamir turned 16, Seto stepped down from the throne, and let his cousin take his place as pharaoh. I look at myself and my past, a shadow horse's past and then make a promise to myself, a shadow horse's promise.
Author's notes: -sob- Well that's the end.
Toshiro: Why do we have to be separated, will we be reunited.
FireWing Pegasus: Relax, I'll put another poll up on my profile while I start the sequel, A Shadow Horse's Promise.
Toshiro: Yeah, Please Review.
