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Chapter 11: The Wicked Priestess
Tabitha's hooded followers had woken up soon after Electra had left the scene. Other than not remembering how they had wound up outside in the dead of night wearing strange robe, the young women all seemed to be unharmed. Thus Jaden and his companions had decided to let them go back to their dorms. Jaden and the others headed back to the guesthouse, and during the whole trip back Jaden and Atticus had noticed that Reggie seemed troubled by something. As soon as they had gotten back to the house, the three of them went into the living room so they could sit down and talk.
"Mac, there's something obviously bothering you." Atticus observed as he sat next to Reggie on the couch. "It's all over your face."
"Did something happen during the duel that upset you?" Jaden asked Reggie.
"I… I remember what happened to me before." Reggie hesitantly began. "I remember how I was brainwashed. It all seemed to come back to me after Tabitha told her little story about how… how that woman seduced her."
"So what happened to you?" Jaden asked.
"Oh come one Jaden, do we really have to get into this?" Atticus asked.
"I know this probably isn't something Reggie wants to talk about, but hearing about it might help us figure out what's going on here." Jaden pointed out.
"It's okay, Rhodie. Jaden might be onto something." Reggie agreed. "Besides… maybe it would help a little to talk about it."
"So what happened, Mac?" Jaden asked again.
"…It was a pretty long time ago." Reggie began after taking a deep breath. "I don't think I was any older than six or seven. I had come here to the academy to visit my dad…"
A young Reggie skipped down the halls towards her father's office. By the time she got there, she saw that the door was open a crack and that a strange white light coming from inside the room. Reggie could tell that something was wrong. But her curiosity got the better of her and she slowly went towards the door. Peeking inside, Reggie saw Electra standing before Principle Mackenzie's desk wearing a white trench coat. Her right arm was outstretched and a beam of white light was flowing into her hand into Principle Mackenzie's chest. In moments the beam of light stopped and Principle Mackenzie passed out in his chair.
Reggie backed away from the door in horror. "Daddy…"
Suddenly the door opened all the way and Reggie saw Electra straight at her. The pupils of the bluenette's golden eyes had become like slits.
"Oh you naughty girl." Electra spoke with a sinister grin. "Seems your father didn't teach you that it's not nice to spy on people. Of course while I'm sure that no one will believe the story of a little child like you, I'm not comfortable with taking any risks of my little secret getting out into the open."
"Please… don't hurt me!" Reggie begged as she continued to back away.
"Don't worry. I have no intention of harming you." Electra assured Reggie as she began to walk towards her. "At least not now. I'm simply going to make you my slave."
With that, Electra pointed her right index finger down at Reggie. The little girl watched in horror as a beam of white light shot out of Electra's finger and came towards her.
"…From that day, I was that woman's puppet." Reggie spoke as she finished her tale. "Just like my dad and later David. Usually she didn't have that much use for me, but I always had to do whatever she said whether I liked it or not."
"My god!" a horrified Atticus exclaimed.
"So it looks like you and your dad weren't brainwashed the same way Tabitha and the others were." Jaden observed.
"No." Reggie confirmed. "I've never really known why that woman decided to take control of my dad, but I think part of the reason was so she could gain the position she has here at the academy."
"Makes sense." Atticus spoke. "This way she's been able to recruit the students here in that little cult of hers."
"In a way it's not that different from when the Society of Light took over our old school." Jaden recalled.
"I think there's something else you should know, Jaden." Reggie spoke. "That woman has always looked exactly the same as the day I first laid eyes on her. Like she doesn't age. I'm not really sure… if she's even human."
"But then… what is she?" Atticus wondered.
"…I think maybe we should all call it a day." Jaden suggested. "It's been a pretty long night.
"Good idea." Atticus agreed. "I think we can all use some rest."
Jaden was lying on his bed still mostly dressed. He had only bothered to take off his red jacket. Thankfully Reggie and Atticus were not giving a repeat performance of the night when Reggie first began staying at the guesthouse. Yet Jaden was finding that sleep was proving to be an impossible task. There were still so many questions on his mind, and his conversation with Reggie about how she had first been brainwashed by Electra had only seemed to raise more.
As Jaden continued to stare up at the ceiling, his cat Pharaoh jumped up onto the foot of the bed. The cat yawned and a small ball of gold light flew out of his mouth. In moments, the ball of light took the form of a transparent man with long black hair and glasses. Jaden recognized this entity as the ghost of his dead teacher, Lyman Banner.
"Good evening, Jaden." Banner greeted. "Seems like you're up awfully late. Is something troubling you?"
"Hi Banner." Jaden greeted back. "It's kind of a long story. Say, you wouldn't know anything about some ancient god called Zott, would you?"
"Hmm…" Banner responded as he held his chin in thought. "Now that you mention it, I think I may have heard of a legend about this so-called god you're referring to."
"Seriously?" a surprised Jaden asked as he sat up.
"If I remember correctly, I read something about the legend when I was looking into the origin of Ritual Monsters." Banner recalled.
"If this is going to be a long story, try and give us the short version." Yubel requested as she appeared. "It is pretty late, you know."
"As both of you know, the game we know today as Duel Monsters was originally played using monsters sealed within stone slabs." Banner began. "Instead of Spell cards, the magicians who played the game would cast real magical spells. One such spell was the magic used to fuse two or more monsters into one. But there was another kind of magic that the magicians would use. It was a type of ceremonial magic that would allow the magicians to sacrifice the energy of weaker monsters to create and summon a monster that was even stronger.
"Some of these magical rites were used merely to allow certain monsters to take on an even stronger form, while others were simply used to revive or awaken legendary beasts by offering the energies of weaker monsters. Maximillion Pegasus had come across these ancient spells during his research and used them as the inspiration for the Ritual Monsters and Spells that we know today."
"While that is interesting, I don't really see what all that has to do with Zott." Yubel interrupted.
"Normally, the magicians of ancient times would only sacrifice other monsters for these rituals." Banner continued. "But the texts that I've read also mention that some of these magicians would use human sacrifices for the rituals. By using a human sacrifice for the ritual, the summoned monster would gain an incredible power. But the practice of using human sacrifices was a forbidden unspeakable act."
"The Sacrifice Maidens!" Jaden spoke. "Electra and her followers have been doing the same thing some of those ancient magicians did."
"There was a specific legend mentioned that used this forbidden practice." Banner responded. "Over seven thousand years ago there was a kingdom who attempted to use a human sacrifice in a ritual to create a monster that would allow them to slay their enemies. But something went wrong during the ritual. Instead of the young maiden chosen as the offering, every other living thing in the kingdom was sacrificed. As a result, the young maiden had gained unspeakable power and the ritual had brought to life a demon known as Zott."
"Does the legend say what happened to Zott?" Jaden asked.
"The only thing I remember the legend saying is that Zott was eventually destroyed by a powerful hero." Banner recalled. "Beyond that, I'm afraid I don't know anything else."
"Well, I guess that's more than we knew before." Jaden admitted. "Of course I still don't see how Zott and Electra are connected to the Light of Destruction."
"Maybe not, but I'm certain that the Light's involved." Yubel told him. "Remember what Neos told us when he showed us the Primal Flame. The Light can take on many forms."
"Yeah… you're probably right." Jaden agreed as he leaned back onto the bed. "Whatever Zott and Electra are, I probably won't be able to beat them if I'm worn out. Goodnight, you two."
"Goodnight, Jaden." Yubel replied.
With that, Yubel vanished and Banner turned back into a ball of gold light that Pharaoh quickly jumped up and devoured. Jaden closed his eyes and let his mind simply drift. Before he knew it, he had finally dozed off.
David sat at the desk in his room working on his deck. He had already changed for bed, but he was far from ready to go to sleep. Ever since his defeat to Jaden, David had been modifying his deck over and over again trying to figure out the best way improve it and get revenge. But none of the modifications he made seemed any better than how his deck had been built before. His original deck had been perfect, and yet a bush league duelist had still beaten him.
"Damn it!" David cursed in frustration as he threw his cards against the wall. "How could I have lost to that chump?"
"Well that certainly isn't going to solve anything." A familiar voice spoke. "Glad to see that you're holding onto that anger though."
David looked back and saw Electra standing in the room, completely naked. The sight of her nude figure turned David on. Of course he had always found Electra to be sexy, but he never thought he would see her like this.
"Electra!" David spoke as he rose to his feet. "What're you…?"
"I need you to help me destroy Jaden Yuki." Electra explained as she walked up. "You obviously want revenge against him."
"You know I do!" David confirmed. "I want to make that little punk pay for humiliating me like that!"
"As you are now, I'm afraid that won't be possible." Electra informed him. "But I can give you the power to crush him."
"Fine! Do whatever you have to!" David told her. "I don't care what it takes, as long as I can get my revenge!"
"Good." Electra replied as her lips curved into a smirk. "I knew you'd say that."
Suddenly Electra slashed open the front of the black t-shit David was wearing with her fingernails. Before David could react, the blunette pushed him hard onto the floor. Electra swiftly removed his boxers, exposing his already hardened rod. She then got down on top of him, moaning a bit as the rod entered her. Afterwards Electra began bucking her hips wildly.
David had never felt anything so amazing before. He found that he was almost mesmerized by the bouncing of Electra's large breasts. But as David gazed at Electra's form, he quickly noticed that it was starting to change. The pupils of her golden eyes had become slit-like almost like the eyes of a cat. Her tan skin began to turn dark-blue. Black curved horns grew from the sides of Electra's head, and her fingernails had become black claws. David also noticed that a thin cord-like tail with a point on the end had grown from Electra's rear end and was wagging about.
When Electra's transformation had finished, Electra had increased the pace of her movements. David could feel himself getting close to the edge. Then with one last hard movement from Electra's hips, they both hit their climax. Electra grinned and the tip of the claw of her right index finger began to glow with an odd white light. She began to use the claw to leave scratches in David's chest deep enough to draw blood. David felt an extremely painful burning sensation from Electra's claw, yet at the same it felt quite pleasurable. By the time Electra had finished, she had carved the emblem of Zott into David's chest.
Electra raised her palm above David's chest. "I empower you in the name of Lord Zott!"
A blast of white light shot down from Electra's palm and hit the symbol carved on David's chest. David could feel an intense power rushing throughout his entire body. He wasn't sure what was going on, but he felt on top of the world.
It was morning as Sheila and Tabitha relaxed under the shade of a tree on academy grounds. Tabitha was lying on her back with her head resting on Sheila's lap. They both still could not remember much have what had happened leading up to and during Tabitha's duel with Jaden. But what had happened after the duel was quite wonderful. It seemed that something very good had come out of the ordeal.
"I don't think I've ever felt this happy before." Tabitha spoke. "I feel like I can be my real self with you, Sheila."
"I think I know what you mean." Sheila replied. "I've wanted to get to know you for so long now, but I never thought it could be like this."
Tabitha sat up and looked Sheila in the eye. "I want you to know Sheila that whatever it is that we have between us, it isn't just a physical relationship for me. I really do care about you."
"I feel the same way." Sheila replied. "And while I don't know where this thing between us is going, I'm going to enjoy every minute of it."
"You have no idea how happy I am to hear that you feel the same way." Tabitha told her.
With that, the two of them leaned in and shared another deep kiss. The two girls were so involved with one another that they didn't notice when Jaden and the others showed up.
"Looks like you two have really hit it off." Atticus observed, startling the two girls. Tabitha's face had turned bright red while Sheila merely looked a little irritated.
"Hi guys." Sheila greeted after quickly regaining her composure. "What's up?"
"We just dropped by to see how you two were doing." Jaden explained. "Kinda looks like we came at a bad time though."
"Probably would've been worse if you had shown up like five minutes later." Sheila replied. "So have you figured out how to take down that witch Electra and get things back to normal around here?"
"Not yet. But we think she's going to try something today." Reggie answered.
"Guys, I think we should bring Alexis in on this." Jaden decided. "We can probably use all the help we can get."
"I think you might be right about that." Atticus agreed. "Plus she deserves to know what's going on."
"I'm afraid that none of you are going to have the chance to tell her anything." A familiar voice interrupted.
Jaden and the others looked and saw David approaching them with an evil grin on his face. Right away, Jaden could tell something was off about David. The American pro duelist had a mad look in his eyes.
"Looks like we've got bigger problems right now." Yubel observed as she appeared.
Jaden nodded and focused his attention on David. "What do you want, Rabb?"
"I'd think that would be obvious even to an idiot like you." David answered as he activated his duel disk. "You and I are gonna have a rematch. And you're not leaving until it's over."
"Fine! Game on!" Jaden agreed as he activated his own duel disk. "Let's make this quick!"
"Oh, it'll be quick all right." David responded. "Because I'm gonna blow you away in one shot!"
Alexis walked across the grounds towards the abandoned dorm. Several minutes ago Principle Mackenzie had called her and asked her to come meet him there. Though he didn't say what the reason was. As soon as Alexis arrived, she found Principle Mackenzie waiting in front of the door to the old abandoned structure. Right away she noticed that he had a duel disk on his arm.
"Ah, Ms. Rhodes. Thank you for coming so soon." Principle Mackenzie greeted. "I see you also have your duel disk with you. This will make things so much easier."
"Sir, what's going on?" Alexis asked.
Principle Mackenzie merely grinned and snapped his fingers. Suddenly a wall of white flames had surrounded both him and Alexis.
"Did you really think that I gave you the position you have here because of your skills?" Principle Mackenzie asked. "You were chosen because you were the ultimate sacrifice to revive my master."
"What the heck are you talking about?" Alexis demanded to know.
"There is only one way out of this ring of fire." Principle Mackenzie told her as he activated his duel disk. "And that is to defeat me."
"I don't know what any of this is about, but you're going to regret challenging me!" Alexis declared as she activated her own duel disk in response. "Don't think you can take me down so easily!"
"Oh, I know that you'll give me a good fight." Principle Mackenzie responded with an evil grin. "That's why you're exactly the right sacrifice to revive Lord Zott."
Author's Note: Just to let everyone know, there might be a slight delay with posting this next chapter of this story. I have this other thing that I want to try and take care of this weekend. Plus I have to figure out a couple things about how the next chapter is going to go. But I'll try not to keep everyone waiting for too long. Hopefully, it'll be worth the wait.
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